This appeared a few days ago.Private companies accessed MBS data dump 1000 timesAntony Scholefield | 13 October, 2016 | Around 1000 private companies could potentially identify the MBS claiming histories of individual doctors following the Department of Health's botched data dump.The department's release of one billion lines of supposedly anonymous MBS data in August was intended for research.But the department was forced to remove the dataset two weeks ago after learning that provider numbers could be decrypted.Minister for Health Sussan Ley (pictured) has attempted to reassure doctors, saying no "identifiable data had been compromised".However, it has now emerged that the data was downloaded 1500 times before it was pulled.Around 500 downloads were carried out by academics, but there were also 1000 downloads by private companies including private health insurers.Researchers were able to decrypt the service numbers of providers, which were linked to MBS claims for 10% of all...
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