Australia's biggest skin cancer study has been hit by an unpublicised data breach, with the personal details of more than 1,000 people feared to have been accessed by hackers.
The hacked data company was hired to scan and process surveys for the QSKIN studyThe ABC can reveal cyber criminals last year broke into servers holding highly sensitive data collected by QIMR Berghofer, a medical research institute based in Brisbane.
In November last year, hackers managed to briefly cripple Datatime by locking it out of its own systems and sending the company a sample of the stolen data.When approached by the ABC, QIMR Berghofer revealed 1,128 people were caught up in the data breach. QIMR Berghofer would not say whether it was the subject of any other unpublicised data breaches, and why it had not publicly disclosed this breach.
"There has been no further contact with the cyber hackers and we have no reason to believe any private data has been, or will be, released." It also asked participants for access to their Medicare records and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which also provides access to a person's prescription medication history.Mr Woodbridge said the data breach had left him sleepless.
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