Medibank – one of Australia’s biggest health insurers – comes under cyber attack
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Medibank – one of Australia’s largest health insurers – is hit by a massive cyber attack
- Australian private health insurer Medibank has been the victim of a cyber attack
- The company has the personal information of more than 3.9 million customers
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One of Australia’s largest health insurers, Medibank Private, has announced it has been the victim of a massive cyber attack and has temporarily shut down some IT systems.
In a letter to the Australian Stock Exchange, Medibank said it had detected unusual activity on its network on Wednesday.
“At this stage, there is no evidence that sensitive data, including customer data, has been accessed,” the company said.
CEO David Koczkar apologized for the incident, acknowledging “this news may worry people.”
Private health insurer Medibank announced on Thursday that it was a victim of a cyber attack
Medibank has more than 3.9 million customers. The shares were placed in a trading freeze on Thursday.
It follows the country’s largest-ever cyber breach when the personal data of up to 10 million Optus customers was recently exposed to hackers.
Medibank says it took immediate steps to “contain the incident” and engaged expert cybersecurity firms to work on the breach.