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Five Russians went out drinking. When they got back, Australia had struck (www.smh.com.au)
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Siberian nightlife has its opportunities. Just ask Australian cyber spies, who used local criminals’ decision to enjoy a vodka-soaked night to bust a multimillion-dollar business run by Russians warehousing stolen data.

It wasn’t ordinary data. It was a treasure trove of millions of Australians’ sensitive health information, including on mental and sexual conditions, that had been pilfered from the insurer Medibank in August 2022.

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[–] breakingcups 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Non paywall: https://archive.is/JGiSm

Still lacking a lot of information on what the Australians actually did, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The ASD deleted the data, obviously after having gained access to the "bulletproof" hosting server

They also said they escalated through the hosting provider's network and removed other stolen data

And they got the people responsible on Interpol's wanted list

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Paywall removed:

https://archive.is/JGiSm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice, I guess. Maybe they can strike medibank for their dataleaks. Maybe stop the offshore concentration camps. The mining Maybe? What about the indigenous treaty? The tent camps because if you can't afford the prices, tough shit. What if they did anything?!!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you doing anything useful, besides thinking up great ideas that other people should be doing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope, but I'm not the one vomiting a bunch of "they shoulda done this!!!1!" Fuck what they should have done. What have YOU done? With all your opinions lol.