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

07
Nov
2022
Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After 9.7 Million Customers Exposed in Ransomware Hack

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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 event,” prompting it to isolate its systems, but not before the attackers exfiltrated the data.

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