Sydney (AFP – link in Spanish) – Hackers have threatened to leak the health data of a thousand stolen Australian celebrities in a digital attack on an insurance company. Medibank, one of the country’s largest private health insurance companies, said the hackers claimed to have stolen 200 gigabytes of data.
“The criminals provided a sample of data from 100 policies,” it said in a statement on the Australian stock market. “These include data on the location in which a patient received the medical service and codes related to their diagnosis and procedure”.
Cybercriminals threaten to leak or sell data, starting with 1,000 Australian celebrities, if the company doesn’t pay a ransom. This attack follows another last month against a telecommunications company in which the personal information of some 9 million Australians, almost a third of the population, was exposed.