Epichealth cyber incident exposes patient data
Original title: AU: Important update from Epichealth – cyber incident
Epichealth reports unauthorized access to IT systems affecting personal details, Medicare card numbers and health information; incident contained with minimal operational impact.
Epichealth, operator of four medical clinics in Australia, experienced a cyber incident where an unauthorised third party accessed part of its IT systems. Independent experts contained the incident and restored access with limited operational impact. The company is investigating affected data and has reported the incident to the Australian Cyber Security Centre and Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. The Gentlemen ransomware group disclosed the incident on October 26.
- Affected data includes name, date of birth, email, phone, address, Medicare card number and health information
- Clinics remain open and continue normal operations
- Incident contained quickly by cyber experts
Impact: Personal and health information including Medicare card numbers exposed
- Vendors
- Epichealth
- Products
- IT systems
- Threat actors
- Gentlemen ransomware group
- Victims
- Epichealth
- Countries
- Australia
From the original article
3 min read at databreaches.netSeen on Epichealth: 4 November 2026 What has happened Epichealth operates four medical clinics including the Warrnambool Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, Epichealth Ocean Grove Marketplace, Epichealth Ocean Plaza, and Epichealth Portarlington. Epichealth recently experienced a cyber incident, during which an unauthorised third party accessed a part of our IT systems. As soon we became aware...
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