Nearly a million New Zealanders face the risk that their medical data has been accessed illegally after a cyber attack on the website of T? Ora Compass Health, the company said on Saturday.
The website was hacked in August, but investigations also uncovered previous attacks dating from 2016 to March 2019, the health firm, which collects and analyses patient information from medical centres, said in a statement.
"While this was illegal and the work of cyber criminals, it was our responsibility to keep people's data safe and we've failed to do that," Martin Hefford, Chief Executive Officer of T? Ora, said in the statement.
Both T? Ora and New Zealand's Ministry of Health said they have not been able to determine whether the cyber attacks resulted in any information being accessed.
T? Ora said it holds health data on people from the greater Wellington, Wairarapa and Manawatu regions dating back to 2002. The health ministry said in a statement that the data does not include notes made on consultations patients have had with general practitioners, but includes other information.
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Four homeless men in NY beaten to death
NEW YORK: A homeless man wielding a metal pipe beat four other homeless people to death Saturday in New York, police said. A fifth man was hospitalized in a critical condition. Police detained a 24-year-old male as the suspect in the attack in the Chinatown area of Lower Manhattan in the small hours of Saturday.
The victims were apparently asleep when they were set upon, said Michael Baldassano of the New York police department.
"The motive appears to be, right now, just random attacks," he told reporters. "No one was targeted by race, age, anything of that nature."
Every night more than 63,000 people sleep in the New York City shelter system, says the Bowery Mission, an advocacy group. But nearly 4,000 more sleep on the street, in the subway or in other public areas. The group says factors causing homelessness include mental illness, substance abuse, lack of affordable housing and problems keeping a job.
Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2019
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