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While adults are also at risk of scams or stigma due to the disclosure of health records, children are a special case — particularly because they don't always get a say about what carers sign them up for or share, experts say.

Speculation is rife about whether the insurer will pay a hacker who claims to have extracted 200GB of files

Thousands of patients who used a South Australian home hospital service have their personal and medical information accessed after the Medibank cyber attack.

Medibank's chief financial officer says cyber insurance wouldn't have saved it from taking a hit after a data breach that's affected all its customers.

New details have emerged on the severity of the Medibank hack, which has now affected all users. Optus, Medibank, Woolworths, and, last Friday, electricity provider Energy Australia are all now among the household names that have fallen victim to a data breach.

The first thing Sarah* knew about her identity being hacked was when a man turned up on her parents' doorstep asking for the sexual services he'd paid for online. And then things got even crazier.

A proposal to steeply increase penalties for serious or repeated privacy breaches is welcome but won't do enough to deter incidents like those at Optus and Medibank, privacy critics warn.

The massive cyber attacks on Medibank and Optus that have shocked Australia show the government must change how it deals with data.

Medibank says a cybercriminal hacked the personal information of its 4 million customers.

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Experts suggest using multifactor authentication and telling your bank to put extra security checks in place