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Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Echo Hui, Sarah Curnow and Kevin Nguyen

Cyber black market selling hacked ATO and MyGov logins shows Medibank and Optus only tip of iceberg

The highly sensitive information of millions of Australians — including logins for personal Australian Tax Office accounts, medical and personal data of thousands of NDIS recipients, and confidential details of an alleged assault of a Victorian school student by their teacher — is among terabytes of hacked data being openly traded online.

An ABC investigation has identified large swathes of previously unreported confidential material that is widely available on the internet, ranging from sensitive legal contracts to the login details of individual MyGov accounts, which are being sold for as little as $1 USD.

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