Best Health Insurance: The company’s chief executive said in a statement that our investigation has now revealed that this criminal had breached the personal data of all our private health insurance customers and a large number of medical claims related data.
Health Insurance: In the present era, people get a lot of relief through insurance. If someone has medical insurance, then people get relief in meeting their medical expenses. At the same time, many personal information of people are also included in the medical claim. Going to someone else with such information can also lead to many problems. At the same time, the data of the customers of an insurance company has been hacked. Due to which people may also have to face difficulties.
40 lakh customers data hacked
Australia’s largest health insurance company Medibank said that a cybercriminal has hacked the personal data of all its 4 million customers. The government of Australia has come up with a law under which companies that will not be able to protect the personal information of their customers will now face more fines.
Access to medical claims data
Medibank said that criminals also had access to a large number of medical claims data. The police was informed about this a week ago and then the transaction of shares of the company was banned. Police were informed that a ‘criminal’ had contacted the company demanding money in exchange for releasing stolen personal data of consumers and alleged threats to make public information about diseases and treatments of high-profile customers. given.
made a dent
The company had earlier said that the breach was limited to its subsidiary AHM and foreign students. “Our investigation has now revealed that this criminal breached the personal data of all of our private health insurance customers and a large number of medical claims data,” Medibank chief executive David Kozkar said in a statement. At the same time, the company has apologized to the customers regarding this incident.
