It Looks Like The Human Services Minister Has Been A Little Less Than Frank About Medicare Number Leaks Onto The Dark Web!

This appeared last week:11:00pm, Nov 21, 2017 Updated: 11:09pm, Nov 21Revealed: Alan Tudge ’s department knew of Medicare breach prior to bombshell reportExclusiveJohn Power The Department of Human Services flagged the illegal sale of Medicare details on the dark web almost a fortnight before the illicit trade was exposed in a bombshell media report, The New Daily can exclusively reveal .Internal emails, obtained under freedom of information laws, reveal that department officials discussed the security issue as early as June 22 – nearly two weeks before revelations that Medicare numbers were being sold online.On July 4, The Guardian revealed that a dark web vendor was advertising the sale of any Australian’s Medicare number for the bitcoin equivalent of just $22 after exploiting a government system vulnerability.In the wake of the revelations, Human Services Minister Alan Tudge said that he and his department had only learned of the illicit trade when contacted by a Guard ian journalist... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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