Medibank hack: Clare O’Neil says new cybercrime operation will hunt down ‘Russian thugs’

Officials drawn from AFP and the Australian Signals Directorate to form joint standing operation' against cybercriminal syndicates

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Australia has awoken from a cyber slumber" and will day in, day out hunt down the scumbags" who have stolen the health data of nearly 10 million Australians, home affairs minister Clare O'Neil has said.

After the Russian embassy complained it had not been informed the Australian government would publicly accuse Russian cybercriminals of being behind a hack on private health insurer Medibank, O'Neil did not resile from publicly blaming Russians for the hack.

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