Sydney s Cross City Tunnel operator is refusing to pay a percentage of tolls collected to hackers despite the group claiming they will release sensitive data on drivers if they aren t paid by June 26.
The Australian Federal Police has identified the individual criminals responsible for stealing and releasing Medibank patient data and says they are part of a loose group of Russian hackers.
Telecom giant Optus claims their customers' personal data had multiple layers of protection. But the Australian government believes they were breached by "quite a basic hack."