Prescription delivery service provider MediSecure, which fell victim to a large-scale cyber breach that compromised the personal health information of thousands of Australians in April, has entered voluntary administration and is expected to face its creditors later this month.
FTI Consulting on Wednesday issued a statement in which it said Vaughn Strawbridge and Paul Harlond were appointed as voluntary administrators of MediSecure on June 3, and liquidators of the company’s subsidiary, Operations MDS, on June 4.
MediSecure has been working with cyber and forensic experts from McGrathNicol Advisory.Credit: Elise Amendola
Until late 2023, the Melbourne-based firm, founded in 2009, was a national prescription delivery service provider serving healthcare providers. The company enabled prescriptions to be delivered from medical professionals to a pharmacy of an individual’s choice.
In May, federal police were investigating the healthcare business, which was targeted in a large-scale ransomware data breach. The same month, a hacker claiming to have Australian patient data from the breach put the information up for sale on a Russian hacking forum for $US50,000 ($75,735). They claimed to be in possession of 6.5 terabytes of data,…