Cybersecurity incident — 2017-07-03 00:00:00
Affected organization: Medicare
Affected country: Australia
Industry: Health Care and Social Assistance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

The Guardian reveals that a darknet trader is illegally selling the Medicare patient details of any Australian on request by "exploiting a vulnerability" in a government system.