AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw: Senate Estimates Opening Statement

Wednesday, February 14, 2024


Good evening committee members. In October 2022, Medibank Private was targeted by cyber criminals who illegally obtained and released 9.7 million records containing the personal information of Australians. The AFP and the Australian Signals Directorate immediately began an investigation to identify the criminals responsible. Soon after that attack, I released a statement outlining that the AFP believed that those responsible for the Medibank Private cyber breach were in Russia.

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