Medibank

Well-known brands including RSPCA, Woolworths and Medibank have been blocked from selling pet insurance policies because they failed to properly consider the financial situation of prospective customers.On Thursday, the Australian…

Medibank Private will be required to hold an additional $250 million capital buffer as a consequence of its large-scale data breach last year, the banking regulator said after a review of the incident.The Australian Prudential and…

Attempts to compensate nearly 10 million victims of the Medibank Private hack have hit an unexpected hurdle after the privacy commissioner flagged that it does not want to pursue compensation on customers’ behalf.The Office of the…

The criminals were then able to access Medibank’s network through a misconfigured firewall, which meant they did not require the usual two-factor authentication. The hackers then used this access to obtain further usernames and passwords to…

“Where the commissioner considers there is sufficient public interest in an incident, the commissioner may publish a report of the investigation,” the OAIC said.Law firm Maurice Blackburn lodged a representative complaint with the OAIC the…

Government Service Minister Bill Shorten told ABC’s RN Breakfast that the latest development was “shocking”.“The people who’ve hacked Medibank are absolute criminal lowlifes,” he said.“If people think that any government ID has been in any…

The financial services watchdog has put Medibank Private’s management on notice, flagging it would take further action against the health insurer’s executives if the company’s risk management is found to be inadequate.The Australian…

Hackers who have accessed the data of nearly 10 million Medibank customers are claiming to have released the biggest tranche of sensitive data on the dark web yet, in an escalation of their attempt to force the company into paying a…

Strauss explained he had his data compromised as a former Optus customer, but said the communication from the telco had been clear and concise.Another shareholder was John Johnston who flew from Brisbane for the shareholding AGM.“I thought…

Earlier, Medibank chief executive David Koczkar sent a clear message to the criminals who hacked the records of 9.7 million customers, insisting the insurer was not going to change its decision to reject the $US10 million ($15 million)…