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Five Russians went out drinking. When they got back, Australia had struck (www.smh.com.au)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Siberian nightlife has its opportunities. Just ask Australian cyber spies, who used local criminals’ decision to enjoy a vodka-soaked night to bust a multimillion-dollar business run by Russians warehousing stolen data.

It wasn’t ordinary data. It was a treasure trove of millions of Australians’ sensitive health information, including on mental and sexual conditions, that had been pilfered from the insurer Medibank in August 2022.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Non paywall: https://archive.is/JGiSm

Still lacking a lot of information on what the Australians actually did, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

The ASD deleted the data, obviously after having gained access to the "bulletproof" hosting server

They also said they escalated through the hosting provider's network and removed other stolen data

And they got the people responsible on Interpol's wanted list