{"id":35031,"date":"2023-05-04T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/australias-medibank-served-with\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T23:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:04:57","slug":"australias-medibank-served-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/australias-medibank-served-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s Medibank served with third class-action suit over cyber breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) -Australia’s Medibank Private Ltd said on Friday it was served with another class-action suit related to the cyber hack incident last year in which personal data of current and former customers was leaked on the dark web.<\/p>\n

The third class-action suit related to the incident was filed in the country’s federal court by law firm Slater & Gordon on behalf of affected current and former Medibank customers, and healthcare service providers.<\/p>\n

Among the many breaches reported by Australian companies since late last year, Medibank had disclosed that a hacker stole personal information of 9.7 million current and former customers and released the data on the dark web.<\/p>\n

In a statement on its website, Slater & Gordon alleged that the health insurer failed to protect, or take reasonable steps to protect the personal information of its customers, thereby breaching consumer law and privacy principles.<\/p>\n

In recent months, similar class action suits against the company have been filed by law firms Baker & McKenzie and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.<\/p>\n

Medibank, which is also under investigation from the country’s privacy regulator on how it handles personal information, said it would defend the proceedings.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Himanshi Akhand in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)<\/p>\n

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