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business reporter Emilia Terzon

Australian Clinical Labs accused of 'sitting on' hack that saw patient data posted to the dark web

Cybersecurity experts are questioning why it took one of Australia's biggest pathology services five months to tell its patients that data had been stolen and posted to the dark web.

Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) yesterday revealed it was hit by a cyber attack eight months ago, in February, and that since then it had found out the data of 223,000 people had been accessed and some of it posted to the dark web.

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