Half of all Australians hit by MediSecure hack, but company can't afford to find out who

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Half of Australia's population has been caught up in the cyber attack on MediSecure, but the company can't afford to find out exactly who had their data stolen and notify them.

The eprescription provider's administrators released an update on the incident this evening, in which it said 12.9 million Australians' details were compromised in the April hack.Senior police officer engaged in 'serious misconduct' with alleged drunk crash: watchdogHalf of Australia's population has been caught up in the cyber attack on MediSecure, administrators say.

"MediSecure can confirm that approximately 12.9 million Australians are impacted by this incident based on individuals' healthcare identifiers," administrators FTI Consulting said in a statement. The impacted server analysed by an external adviser consisted of an extremely large volume of semi-structured and unstructured data stored across a variety of data sets."This made it not practicable to specifically identify all individuals and their information impacted by the Incident without incurring substantial cost that MediSecure was not in a financial position to meet."

 

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