Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on 13 million Australians having medical information stolen and sold on the dark web

Nearly 13 million Australians have had their medical data stolen and sold on the dark web, following a recent hack.

Names, addresses, phone numbers and prescriptions were among the information stolen in a MediSecure hack in May.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says the information is being sold for over $25,000.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with ends in Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand business.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Murray Old does a correspondent for US.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
He mus, very good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Do you have it, mus Have we got a second
person now charge with their head and run murder?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yes we do. It's a man and police say this
is a case of domestic violence. Extremely distressing story. This
last Friday morning, young mum twenty three years old just
dropped a daughter off at a daycare center in Brisbane
and police say she was deliberately run down by a
twenty four year old woman who was behind the wheel
of afore wheel drive. She'd been loitering around outside the

(00:35):
center and the allegation is she flattened this woman as
she walked along the footpath and she died in hospital
on Friday night. Now, as I say, police made it
clear of the weekend this was a matter of domestic
violence and now a twenty seven year old man's been
charged with murder as well. The accused man and the
victim weren't known to each other and to a whole
lot to more details at the next court appearance.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Must so this stolen Mida Cool records have been sold
on the dark web for.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
How much, Well, we don't know exactly how much. Apparently
they were offered for sale for fifty thousand dollars, mainly
that these things often offered in US dollars for sale.
I know nothing about this. I have enough trouble with
the standard web, never mind the dark web. But the
fact is, the medical records of around thirteen million Australians

(01:25):
were hacked back in May. It was the information hacked
from an outfit called many Secure, which provides electronic prescriptions
to people over here. And so what was stolen, Well,
it was a whole chunk of stuff, names, addresses, phone numbers,
the drugs people are on and so on, why they've
been prescribed as well, and experts, as I say, they're

(01:46):
over here now saying that it's pretty clear this material
has been sold already, and they're saying fifty thousand dollars
was the original asking price, and the trope of information,
we understand is now being sold for a second time,
but it's only half priced twenty five thousand dollars. I'm
not sure what value attaches to this information. I mean,

(02:08):
I don't know what they can use the data for,
but I suppose there would be people who are into
data who would love to get their hands on names,
addresses and phone numbers and so on. So you know
how you protect against this sort of stuff. We don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. You know, maybe what they
do with it, Mars, is that they if they've got
enough of your stuff, they can hacken to your stuff
and then see if you've got dirty pictures on your
phone and then oh, really lackmail. It seems like a
lot of work. Don't you feel like I just probably
would get a job. What do you think that's a
very good idea?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Here? Does?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
And tell me is this AI version of Stephen Miles
at all convincing?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, mate, I reckon he's the most wooden politician in Australia.
He could put forty thousand vaults with the bloke and
I don't think it'd get excited. But here he is
tiktoking away and he's dancing and apparently it's been created
by artificial intelligence. He is furious. Stephen Miles is furious.
I'm very unhappy and he's been targeted by the state
opposition with this artificial intelligence fake video of him dancing. Okay,

(03:07):
says it's where's the quote here? The fake video response,
he says, Now I can't even read my notes. He says,
it's outrageous. It's a poor, disgusting I beg your pardon.
I've just found the quote. It's appalling and disgusting, says Miles.
Or the opposition stooped to using AI and deep fake
videos to attack me. But for me, it humanizes the guy.

(03:27):
He actually doesn't look so wooden. But I mean, as
this where we're going with AI, maybe it is, but
certainly he is cranky as all get out. And the
opposition up and queens, they're making no apologies. It's all
fair and love and politics.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Good stuff. Mauz, thank you very much, appreciate it. Murray
Old's Australia correspondent, sorry about the sound of the elevator.
For some reason, Muzz decided to stand next to an
elevator to talk to us and warned us you might
hear the elevator, and we heard the elevator. For more
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