New Zealand Court Acts to Stop Spread of Hacked Medical Records
The New Zealand High Court has issued an urgent injunction barring the publication of stolen medical data after hackers accessed 430,000 private patient documents held on a health portal used by more than a third of the country’s population.
Hackers calling themselves the Kazu Group accessed health records on the Manage My Health website last week and threatened to publish them on online forums unless a “confidentiality fee” of $60,000 in bitcoin was paid, according to a High Court judgment released in Wellington on Wednesday.
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