Another day, another data leak - it's so commonplace that this one didn't even make the Aus news cycle.
Oct 27 (Reuters) - Australian Clinical Labs (ACL.AX) said on Thursday its Medlab Pathology business suffered a data breach that affected health records and credit card information of about 223,000 patients and staff.

This is the latest in a series of hacks to rock corporate Australia, after the country's biggest health insurer Medibank (MPL.AX) and No. 2 telco Optus (STEL.SI) were also hit by breaches that compromised the data of millions of customers

ACL: To date, there is no evidence of misuse of any of the information or any demand made of Medlab or ACL.

Oh, thank God. Guess the hackers were just doing it for fun! Another classic use of the no evidence line by THE Science. What they really mean is that we refuse to look at/accept the evidence - coz we know it's going to be bad for us.

As usual, there has been no head-way, or even mention, of holding anyone to account. In Aus, they don't want to know. What if it's China? God forbid we risk saying anything to upset our biggest trading partner ... No, better to just keep our heads, and everyone else's heads in the sand, and let em have it. It's the new normal ...

You can't really get more sensitive information than people's health records - now it's all flowing out there with total impunity for the those responsible for keeping it safe as well as for those who hack it.