Medibank Data Breach Led to Over 11,000 Cybercrime Incidents, Police Say

Police in Victoria are seeing “significant growth in individual and organised criminal activity” online, which they attribute to the “anonymity, relatively low risk, wide reach and high yield cybercrime can offer.” In a submission to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, police say Victorians report more than 2,000 cyber-crimes each month, with a rolling 12-month average total loss to victims of almost $400 million. It also revealed that more than 11,000 cybercrime incidents have been linked to the Medibank data breach, which saw the private details of 9.7 million people stolen by a Russian hacker and released on the dark web in November 2022....