Medibank says it won’t pay a ransom despite threats to leak data

One of Australia’s biggest health insurers, Medibank, has said it won’t be paying up in order to get its data back following a recent ransomware attack.

The decision was confirmed by the company’s CEO, David Koczkar, via LinkedIn, following a somewhat longer post on the platform earlier this week where he to Medibank customers for any problems caused by the attack, but said paying the ransom demand might make things even worse. 

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