Information about individual diseases diagnoses, payment cards and national insurance cards is among the data stolen by hackers from Australian company Medlab Pathology.
Parent company Australian Clinical Labs disclosed the breach on Thursday, saying that it involved the personal information of approximately 223,000 people.
“To date, there is no evidence of misuse of any of the information or any demand made of Medlab or ACL,” the company says. About 60% of the affected individuals had their Medicare number and name released. About 12% had credit card numbers exposed and about 8% are set to find out that medical records associated with a pathology test were posted online.
The testing giant – it describes itself as one of Australia’s largest privately owned independent pathology practices – says it will directly contact individuals affected by the breach.
Australian cybersecurity authorities informed the company in June that the stolen data was available or download on the dark web, Australian Clinical Labs says.
The ransomware-as-a-service group behind Quantum malware took credit on its leak site for the breach in June by posting an 86-gigabyte file. The group is an offshoot off Conti, which claims to have dissolved in May.
