The person claiming to be the Medibank hacker has revealed this morning their ransom demand to the health insurer.
On the dark web post this morning, additional text was added stating: “Society ask us about ransom, it’s a 10 millions (sic) usd. We can make discount 9.7m 1$=1 customer.”
At current rates, US$9.7 million is worth $15.07 million.
The supposed hacker, who goes by the name John K Ram, an apparent riff on the name of the villain from the SAW film series, also posted that: “Medibanks (sic) CEO stated, that ransom amount is ‘irrelevant’. We want to inform the customers, that He refuses to pay for yours data more, like 1 USD per person. So, probably customers data and extra efforts don’t cost that.”
Following the release of 200 users’ personal health data yesterday, the hacker has today posted an additional file of information allegedly obtained in the hack.
The new file appears to contain highly personal health information.
With so much information already leaked, there is a high risk of scams and individual ransom demands to come for the 500 or so Australians whose personal data has already been published.
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Those customers should be on high alert for scammers.
Medibank is yet to contact the 500,000 customers who have had health data stolen to specifically advise them that they are among the group for whom the hacker has more than just contact information.
Former tennis champion Todd Woodbridge has said he believes he may be one of them and has been targeted by scammers following the hack.
Woodbridge, a Medibank customer, said he suffered a minor heart attack last month and recently received a phone call from scammers who tried to get him to pay a “hospital bill”.
They knew the hospital he had stayed at along with other personal information, but Woodbridge, who had already paid the bill, said he didn’t hand over any account information.
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