More on Data Breaches
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Just weeks after the revelations of the Optus Breach, Medibank has admitted that their data breach was more reaching than they initially lead on.
In Medibank's latest communication they highlighted all ahm data has been compromised:
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All ahm customers’ personal data and significant amounts of health claims data
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All international student customers’ personal data and significant amounts of health claims data
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All Medibank customers’ personal data and significant amounts of health claims data
This week the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) published advice for those that have been impacted by Medibank and AHM Cyber breach.
At a recent Cyber Security Conference Department of Affairs Secretary Michael Pezzullo references Minister for Home Affairs Clare O'Neil in looking at how the recent Optus breach is opening to have a larger conversation around data protection, cyber security, and the management of digital identity:
And she as the lead minister within the Government, along with her colleague the Attorney-General, the Treasurer and other ministers who have got responsibilities across those general areas have said that that catch-up is going to occur under this Government’s watch. She’s made it very clear the Government is determined—and this is not just in relation to the Optus matter, she has used the Optus matter to speak about this generally—to bring together into more closer policy alignment those ancillary and related areas of digital identity, consumer data protection, privacy protections et cetera. Responsibilities of various different Ministers and it is her job, working with her ministerial colleagues, to marshal all of that.
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