"Nearly 13 Million Australians Affected by MediSecure Attack"

MediSecure recently announced that the personal and health data of almost 13 million Australians has been impacted by the cyberattack that occurred in May 2024.  The company says that it has determined that 12.9 million individuals who used the MediSecure prescription delivery service during the period of March 2019 to November 2023 have been impacted by the incident.  This includes information relating to patient prescriptions.  Some of the information exposed includes full names, dates of birth, gender, email addresses, home addresses, and phone numbers.  Some of the health information exposed include individual healthcare identifiers, medicare card numbers and expiration dates, Pensioner Concession card numbers and expiration dates, Commonwealth Seniors card numbers and expiration dates, Healthcare Concession card numbers and expiration dates, Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) (Gold, White, Orange) card numbers and expiration dates, prescription medication, including name of drug, strength, quantity, repeats, and the reason for prescription and instructions.  After the investigation, the company noted that the impacted server consisted of an extremely large volume of semi-structured and unstructured data stored across a variety of data sets and said it was not practical to specifically identify all impacted individuals.

Infosecurity Magazine reports: "Nearly 13 Million Australians Affected by MediSecure Attack"