The Australian Federal Police have claimed the hackers behind Medibank’s data breach are located in Russia.
The culprits are responsible for millions of customers’ data being exposed on the dark web.
The commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Reece Kershaw announced at a media conference that authorities had flagged a group of “loosely affiliated” cyber criminals as being responsible for the breach.
He said the agency believes it knows the identities of those behind the breach but would not name them, with some affiliates suspected to be in other countries.
The AFP said they will be speaking with Russian law enforcement about the individuals and the incident.
Kershaw directed a warning to the criminals, “We know who you are, and moreover, the AFP has some significant runs on the scoreboard when it comes to bringing overseas offenders back to Australia to face the justice system,” he said.
The federal government is looking to introduce new legislation to increase fines for companies that suffer serious or repeated privacy breaches.
The updated law would see the maximum fine for data breaches rise from $2.2 million to $50 million.
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