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Services Australia has commenced an investigation into a cyber attack on Brisbane GP and cancer treatment clinic Top Health Doctors, after it suffered an email compromise attack.
The attack, which occurred last September but has only just been revealed to the public, has affected approximately 5,500 people.
“Top Health Doctors West End clinic experienced an incident limited to an email compromise of an administration mailbox only,” a spokesperson told ITNews.
“As a precautionary measure, Top Health notified all patients at the West End practice.
“Top Health also notified relevant authorities, including Services Australia, who have a specialist team that can apply precautionary measures to records if required.”
The incident was revealed publicly late last week, after Services Australia announced it was engaging in a “data matching program” which involves matching data secured by Services Australia with that provided by Top Health Doctors.
“The agency will compare the data provided by Top Health Doctors to Medicare and Centrelink customer records held by the agency,” said Services Australia.
“This will assist the agency to identify affected customers and apply proactive security measures to affected customer records.”
The data being checked includes customer dates of birth, addresses and card numbers, expiry data and name appearing on Medicare and Centrelink concession cards.
Further details regarding the nature of the attack are currently unknown, as well as if any data has been stolen or customer financial information compromised.
Cyber Daily has reached out to Top Health Doctors requesting further information.
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