Hackers dump extra buyer knowledge from Australian insurer Medibank By Reuters

By Renju Jose

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s largest well being insurer, Medibank Non-public Ltd,, stated on Thursday that hackers had launched extra of its stolen medical information, as media reported that the whole set of information on hundreds of thousands of shoppers was now public.

The newest launch on the darkish internet follows progressive uploads, together with information of shoppers’ psychological well being and alcohol use, that started after Medibank stated on Nov. 7 it might not pay a ransom.

“The uncooked knowledge we have now analysed at present to this point is incomplete and onerous to know,” chief government David Koczkar stated. “Whereas there are media studies of this being a sign of ‘case closed’, our work isn’t over.”

On Thursday, media reported {that a} weblog, believed by cyber consultants for use by the hackers, carried a brand new publish: “Joyful Cyber Safety Day!!! Added folder full. Case closed.” It additionally included a file that had a number of compressed information amounting to greater than 5 gigabytes.

Reuters has not verified the contents of the most recent information uploaded on the darkish internet, a part of the World Broad Net that’s accessible solely with particular software program. Medibank didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters query asking whether or not it believed all stolen knowledge had now been launched.

Australian Federal Police final month stated Russia-based hackers had been behind the Medibank cyberattack, which compromised the main points of virtually 10 million present and former prospects. Medicare revealed the breach on Oct. 13.

In its newest replace, Medibank stated there have been at the moment no indicators that banking knowledge had been stolen. Private particulars accessed by hackers weren’t sufficient to allow monetary fraud, it added.

Six zipped information positioned in a folder known as “full” and containing uncooked knowledge believed to have been stolen had been uploaded, Medibank stated in an announcement.

Australia has been grappling with a latest rise in cyber assaults. At the very least eight corporations, together with telecoms firm Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications, have reported breaches since September.

Expertise consultants have stated Australia has develop into a goal for hackers simply as a abilities scarcity leaves an understaffed, overworked cybersecurity workforce ill-equipped to cease assaults.