Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed he is one of millions of Australian Medibank customers potentially caught up in the latest cyberattack, but has backed the insurer's stance not to pay a ransom. 9News
potentially caught up in the latest cyberattack, but has backed the insurer's stance not to pay a ransom.
Medibank says it now expects the intimate medical details of more Australian customers to be published on the dark web. "The files appear to be a sample of the data that we earlier determined was accessed by the criminal," Medibank said in an update.
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