Breached health insurer won’t pay ransom to save customers

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Breached health insurer won't pay ransom to protect customers, warns of more attacks

a security incident was worse than it first thought – has announced it will not pay a ransom to attackers that made off with personal info describing nearly ten million customers.

The update also revealed that Medibank believes"all of the customer data accessed could have been taken by the criminal" and recommends"Customers should remain vigilant as the criminal may publish customer data online or attempt to contact customers directly." Such attacks could be nasty. While credit card and banking details were not accessed, info describing medical services used by around half a million customers is out there somewhere.

 

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