Hack of New Zealand's ManageMyHealth exposes thousands of medical records
Unauthorised access was confirmed at New Zealand health portal ManageMyHealth, exposing the medical records of thousands of patients. The company implemented measures to contain the breach and launched an investigation with the relevant authorities.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- ManageMyHealth
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Medical records of thousands of patients exposed
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised access to the health portal system
- Location
- New Zealand
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Timeline
- ManageMyHealth said it had confirmed unauthorised access to its system and was implementing containment measures and a joint investigation with the relevant authorities.
- ManageMyHealth disclosed the scope of the data breach.
- It became known that the medical records of thousands of patients had been exposed in the hack.
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New Zealand patient portal Manage My Health was hacked, and medical documents of about 100,000 people were stolen, with personal health records appearing on the dark web. Notification of affected patients began, but about 47,000 people had no contact details, delaying their notification. The final investigation also identified a personal data handling problem in which hospital records of patients without accounts had been brought into the portal.
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