{"id":9294,"date":"2024-02-16T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2024-02-16T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:00:25","slug":"at-least-12000-people-caught-in-health-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9294","title":{"rendered":"At least 12,000 people caught in health data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12,000 people have had personal information\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/504250\/te-whatu-ora-employs-international-experts-to-investigate-covid-19-vaccine-data-leak\">released in last year&#8217;s leak of Te Whatu Ora Covid 19 data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Health NZ says it has begun notifying those affected.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Margie Apa said the first group to be contacted is a large number of Covid vaccinators whose personal information was in a downloadable file on a US blog.<\/p>\n<p>A smaller number of people who were vaccinated could be identified.<\/p>\n<p>Apa said the number of people whose information has been released may rise.<\/p>\n<p>A former employee of the agency is facing court charges over the leak.<\/p>\n<p>After the data breach came to light in December, Te Whatu Ora\/Health NZ initially said there was a chance &#8220;a small number of people&#8221; had been identified.<\/p>\n<p>But it was now working to find out if it was even more than 12,000.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;<\/i><\/b>We deeply regret what happened and apologise sincerely to those affected. We are making information, advice and support available to individuals being notified,&#8221; Apa said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency was working with the police and the Privacy Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a highly complex situation, and our investigation is ongoing. We are working with local and international cyber security experts to assist and monitor for signs of the data being disclosed online,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Apa said when Te Whatu Ora found out about the breach on the United States blogsite they asked for the information to be removed and it was eventually taken down.<\/p>\n<p>She said the information about the smaller group of vaccinated people could only be identified with considerable effort and technical expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Te Whatu Ora was improving its data security in a bid to stop a similar incident happening again, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12,000 people have had personal information\u00a0released in last year&#8217;s leak of Te Whatu Ora Covid 19 data. Health NZ says it has begun notifying those affected. Chief executive Margie Apa said the first group to be contacted is a large number of Covid vaccinators whose personal information was in a downloadable file on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9296,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions\/9296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}