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Cybersecurity
Police investigate large-scale healthcare data breach at MediSecure
Federal police are investigating after the Melbourne-based healthcare business was targeted in a ransomware data breach.
- by David Swan and Jessica McSweeney
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Investigations
Australian drug smuggling suspects right at home as Dubai makes world’s worst welcome
A mega-leak of property records reveals how suspected drug traffickers and other criminals call the United Arab Emirates a safe haven as the Gulf state looks the other way.
- by Nick McKenzie and Amelia Ballinger
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Crime
The ABC reporter, the underworld postman and the ‘sinister threats’
Award-winning ABC reporter Mahmood Fazal passed on menacing messages from an organised crime gang to journalists, one of whom became so fearful he reported it to police. Fazal denies any wrongdoing.
- by Kate McClymont
Australian brothers’ accused kidnapper confessed to killing them, girlfriend says
Jesus Gerardo faces kidnapping charges in Mexico over the disappearance of Callum and Jake Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad.
- by Alex Crowe
Unmasked: Notorious Russian cyber criminal who plundered hospitals with ransomware
Attacks by the Lockbit ransomware operation targeted over 100 hospitals and healthcare companies worldwide. Now the world knows Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev is the mastermind.
- by Rob Harris
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Courts
Court document reveals confusion over released Perth detainee’s curfew requirements
A court transcript indicates an immigration detainee released following a High Court decision was granted bail in March by a Perth magistrate who appeared to have no idea he was subject to strict monitoring conditions.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Child abuse
‘Most evil crimes imaginable’: Childcare worker, partner jailed for decades
The NSW childcare worker and his partner abused dozens of children over several years and filmed the acts.
- by Clare Sibthorpe
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Drugs
‘Stronger than fentanyl’: The surge in seizures of a deadly new synthetic opioid
Australian authorities are intercepting more shipments of super-potent nitazenes, and medical professionals fear it could lead to a wave of overdoses.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
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Crime
Teen terror suspects had Islamic State beheading and bomb-making videos, court told
One of the videos allegedly showed a person in military fatigues providing instructions for making explosive devices.
- by Clare Sibthorpe and Jessica McSweeney
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Crime
‘Unacceptable risk to the people’: Teens arrested in counter-terror raids
Seven teenagers alleged to adhere to a “religiously motivated violent extremist ideology” have been arrested as part of the investigation into the stabbing attack at a Wakeley church by a 16-year-old boy.
- by Clare Sibthorpe, Christopher Harris, Jessica McSweeney, Paul Sakkal and Perry Duffin
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Man charged over botched drug import after cocaine bricks wash up on NSW beaches
Federal police say the drugs were offloaded from a cargo ship into waters off Brisbane. However, “adverse weather conditions” scuppered the cocaine drop.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Cloe Read and Millie Muroi