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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Royce Kurmelovs

Medibank hack: what do we know about the data breach, and who is at risk?

Medibank sign
Medibank has said hackers had contacted the company ‘negotiate’ over 200 gigabytes of customer data. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

A major cybersecurity incident has occurred at Medibank Private just weeks after one-third of Australians had their information held to ransom in the Optus data breach.

As one of Australia’s biggest health insurance providers, Medibank holds information that includes intimate medical records, making the breach orders of magnitude more serious than the Optus hack.

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