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Re:Patient details of 'any Australian' for sale on darknet by taspeotis on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @02:31AM (#14693954)
Information from your Medicare card is frequently used to authenticate identity, so ... identity theft.
Re:Patient details of 'any Australian' for sale on darknet by jacques_chester on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:50AM (#14695861)
The blast radius is somewhat limited by the 100-point identity check.

Medicare cards are only worth 25 points in the 100-point check. You must present one of the "primary" 70-point documents: birth certificate, birth card, citizenship certificate, current or recently-expired passport, diplomatic or refugee papers.

Then you will need another form of identification, on top of the primary and medicare, to pass 100 points.