Sensitive Health Data of 12.9 Million Individuals Stolen in Cyberattack

One data breach has led to the exposure of several personal and medical data about 12.9 million people who have become victims of cybercrime. Several customers of MediSecure, one of Australia’s leading healthcare providers, have been affected by the huge data breach. There has been a breach of data relating to prescriptions distributed by the company’s systems from March 2019 to November 2023 that have been exposed. 

MediSecure, a company that provides electronic prescriptions, said today that a total of 12.9 million customer records have been stolen and that an unknown amount of these records have been uploaded online.

When it first learned of the data breach on April 13, when other servers holding sensitive personal and health data were discovered to be infected with suspected ransomware, the company publicly confirmed the hack in May. 

In an attack on MediSecure, which provides medical prescriptions, almost 13 million Australians were impacted by an incident where their personal and health data was breached.

Based on a comprehensive investigation into the metadata accessed by its attackers in May 2024, MediSecure has uncovered that 12.9 million individuals, who used the service from March 2019 to November 2023 for the delivery of prescriptions, were affected by the breach. 

In addition to this, information regarding patient prescriptions is stored in this database.

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