This appeared last week:
11:00pm, Nov 21, 2017 Updated: 11:09pm, Nov 21
Revealed: Alan Tudge�s department knew of Medicare breach prior to bombshell report
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The Department of Human Services flagged the illegal sale of Medicare details on the dark web almost a fortnight before the illicit trade was exposed in a bombshell media report, The New Daily can exclusively reveal.
Internal emails, obtained under freedom of information laws, reveal that department officials discussed the security issue as early as June 22 � nearly two weeks before revelations that Medicare numbers were being sold online.
On July 4, The Guardian revealed that a dark web vendor was advertising the sale of any Australian�s Medicare number for the bitcoin equivalent of just $22 after exploiting a government system vulnerability.
In the wake of the revelations, Human Services Minister Alan Tudge said that he and his department had only learned of the illicit trade when contacted by a Guardian journalist on July 3.
However, high-priority correspondence within DHS shows that senior officials discussed the trade on the dark net, which is only accessible through a customised browser, nearly two weeks before it made the news.
On June 22, Rhonda Morris, national manager for serious non-compliance, raised the issue with Kate Buggy, national manager for internal fraud control and investigations, and Mark Withnell, general manager of business integrity, as well as several unnamed officials.
In a later email on July 3, Mr Withnell apparently connected The Guardian�s inquiries to the department�s earlier discussions on the issue, writing to colleagues: �This is the one I was mentioning last week.�
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Somehow the word �sprung� leaps to mind. What a great gotcha which shows just how hard it is to believe what you are being told!
David.
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