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Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After 9.7 Million Customers Exposed in Ransomware Hack

07

Nov

2022

Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million of its current and former customers were accessed following a ransomware incident. The attack, according to the company, was detected in its IT network on October 12 in a manner that it said was “consistent with the precursors to a ransomware […]

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What hackers hunt for

21

Oct

2022

If outsiders somehow get inside your network, it won’t be pleasant — no matter what. However, you can minimize the potential damage of such a breach by thinking ahead about which assets an attacker would be most interested in and then beefing up their security. Here’s what to focus on: 1. Personal data This is […]

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Unknown Hacker Steals Data of a Billion Chinese Citizens

05

Jul

2022

A misconfigured Aliyun or Alibaba private cloud server has led to the leak of around one billion Chinese nationals’ personal details. An unknown hacker, identified as “ChinaDan”, posted an advertisement on a hacker forum selling 23 terabytes of data for 10 bitcoin, equivalent to about $200,000. Touted to be one of the largest data breaches […]

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