Abortion data from Medibank hack posted on dark web as Clare O’Neil pledges to pursue ‘scumbags’

Australian Federal Police warn public it is a criminal offence to seek out the data posted by a Russian ransomware group

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Sensitive health data from Medibank, including information about abortions, has been posted on the dark web, prompting the minister for home affairs, Clare O'Neil, to pledge police would track down the scumbags" behind the hack.

On Thursday morning, on a dark web blog linked to the REvil Russian ransomware group, the attacker posted a file labelled abortions" alongside claims they had sought US$10m from Medibank to prevent the leak of the data.

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