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New Zealand Court Issues Injunction Against Hacked Medical Records Publication
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Hackers known as the Kazu Group accessed 430,000 private patient documents from the Manage My Health website, affecting over a third of New Zealand's population. They demanded a ransom of $60,000 in bitcoin to prevent the publication of the stolen data. In response, the New Zealand High Court issued an urgent injunction to stop the dissemination of the hacked medical records.
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