With almost half of Australia's population impacted, the MediSecure cyber attack is one of the biggest data breaches in the nation's history.
Hackers stole personal data including the health information of nearly 13 million Australians earlier this year, making it one of the nation's biggest cyber attacks. Electronic prescriptions provider MediSecure on Thursday revealed 12.9 million customers had their data stolen, an unknown amount of which has been uploaded to the dark web.
" People who go searching for their information on the dark web risk committing cybercrime if they deal with stolen personal information and can attract a five-year jail term. "I understand many Australians will be concerned about the scale of this breach. I encourage everyone, whether impacted in this incident or not, to be alert to being targeted in scams," Lt Gen McGuiness said.
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