Half of Australia’s Population Exposed After Major Data Hack

The government has assured the public that medical prescriptions continue to work as normal.

An engineering student takes part in a hacking challenge near Paris on March 16, 2013. Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images

Half of the Australian population has had their information stolen in one of the nation’s largest data breaches.

On July 18, electronic prescription service MediSecure announced that it had ceased investigation of a cyber attack into one of its database servers in early 2024.