Medibank, Australia’s top health insurer, confirms a ransomware group has begun posting some stolen data of its 9.7M customers on a REvil-linked dark web forum (Sydney Morning Herald)

Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
Medibank’s hackers post what appears to be the remaining data of 9.7M customers on the dark web, claiming “case closed”, as Medibank continues its investigation  —  Medibank confirms it may be the full trove of hundreds of thousands of customers’ private records that were stolen from the health insurer

Reuters:
Australia’s biggest health insurer Medibank says an October 2022 hack compromised personal and “significant amounts” of health claims data of its ~4M customers  —  Medibank Private Ltd (MPL.AX), Australia’s biggest health insurer, said on Wednesday a cyber hack had compromised …

Nigel Gladstone / Sydney Morning Herald:
A hacker leaks 5TB of data from the Colombian government, exposing the identities and methods of Australian Federal Police anti-narcotics agents  —  A massive leak of classified government documents has exposed the identities and methods of secret agents working to stop major drug importations to Australia.

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom  —  The Vice Society Ransomware gang published data and documents Sunday morning that were stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District during a cyberattack earlier this month.

Kyle Alspach / Protocol:
Microsoft confirms some customer data was left exposed due to a server configuration error but calls claims that 65K+ companies were affected an exaggeration  —  Microsoft said Wednesday that an unspecified amount of customer data, including contact info and email content …

Chelsey Cox / CNBC:
FinCEN: US financial institutions processed ~$1.2B in likely ransomware payments in 2021, up ~3x YoY; ~75% of ransomware incidents in H2 2021 were Russia-linked  —  – U.S. banks and financial institutions processed more than $1 billion in potential ransomware-related payments in 2021.