Red Cross data leak: personal data of 550,000 blood donors made public

By Fergus Hunter, Tom McIlroy, Rania Spooner
Updated October 29 2016 - 3:08pm, first published 8:55am
The breach of data comes from the Australian Red Cross Blood Service and dates back to 2010. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
The breach of data comes from the Australian Red Cross Blood Service and dates back to 2010. Photo: Dallas Kilponen

The private lives of half a million Australians – including sexual and medical histories – have been made public in what could be one of the country's largest data breaches.

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