Less than a day after Medibank confirmed they would not pay a ransom demanded by the people or persons responsible for their mid-October data breach, someone purporting to be in possession of the data is now threatening to release it within 24 hours.
Medibank yesterday confirmed that 9.7 million Australians had had their basic personal information accessed by the hackers, including 5.1 million Medibank customers, 2.8 million AHM and 1.8 million international customers.
Names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses were part of the data breach.
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In addition, health claims data for 160,000 Medibank customers, 300,000 AHM customers and 20,000 international customers was accessible.
It’s that data that is now being discussed in dark web forums for potential release, with the alleged hacker quoting Confucius in their post, saying: “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.”
Underneath that quote the post says: “Data will be publish in 24 hours. P.S I recommend to sell Medibank stocks.”
It’s likely today’s post is a further attempt to scare Medibank into paying the ransom.
