A leading private provider doing breast cancer diagnosis and treatment took six months to notify some patients or the public of a major cyber attack on its systems. "Following a thorough forensic review by our cybersecurity experts, we have been advised that unauthorised access to one of our servers likely occurred, and some data may have been copied." Second health data incidentIn late December, ManageMyHealth confirmed it had identified a security incident involving "unauthorised access" to its platform. More than 80,000 of the 125,000 patients affected by the ransomware attack are based in Northland - the only region where Health NZ itself uses Manage My Health to share information with patients, including hospital discharge summaries, outpatient clinic letters and referral notifications. The operators of compromised patient data app ManageMyHealth say they have received "independent confirmation" from IT experts the flaws in its code have been fixed.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 12, 2026 02:19 UTC