Australians affected by MediSecure hack may never know their personal details have been compromised

Those Australians affected by the MediSecure hack may never find out their information was taken. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

The 12.9 million Australians caught up in the hack on electronic prescriptions provider MediSecure may never be told their personal information has been compromised, with the prime minister saying on Friday he wasn’t aware if he was one of the victims.

On Thursday evening, the administrators for MediSecure – which went into administration after the hack – revealed 6.5TB of data had been compromised after a ransomware attack on a database server, which was discovered by the company in April.