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Megan Prictor, Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne

MediSecure data breach: why is health data so lucrative for hackers?

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The latest large-scale ransomware attack on a health technology provider, electronic prescription company MediSecure, was revealed last week.

MediSecure announced it had suffered a “cyber security incident” affecting people’s personal and health information. Details of the attack are scant. We’ve been told it stemmed from a “third-party vendor”, which means a company that provides services to another company.

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