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William Ton

Millions of Australians hit by prescription cyber hack

A trove of health and personal data was stolen by hackers from prescriptions provider MediSecure. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

Hackers stole personal data including the health information of nearly 13 million Australians earlier this year, making it one of the nation's biggest cyber attacks.

Electronic prescriptions provider MediSecure on Thursday revealed 12.9 million customers had their data stolen, an unknown amount of which has been uploaded to the dark web.

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