Waikato DHB cyber attack: Documents appear to have been released online
A Waikato District Health Board notice in May. (Photo / RNZ)
Waikato DHB cyber attack: Documents appear to have been released online
Documents from Waikato District Health Board appear to have been released onto the dark web after the ransomware attack that crippled five hospitals IT systems in May.
RNZ has been shown screenshots of what appears to be a link to a directory of sensitive information.
The list of documents suggests it includes data of patients and staff.
It has been six weeks since a ransomware attack crippled its systems and forced a massive overhaul of its operations.
Little confirmed the document dump. “I want to acknowledge the patients and staff whose information was held by the Waikato DHB who have now had that information compromised,” he told Parliament. Waikato DHB had a system in place to contact patients to let them know the nature and extent of information about them that had been compromised, he said. The DHB was working with victims to provide them with necessary support, he said. “In addition, people, are entitled to go to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and exercise their rights under the Privacy Act.” Little said cyberattacks were “the reality of the world”, noting Ireland’s health service had also suffered a huge ransomware attack days before Waikato DHB discovered it had been attacked.
Press Release – ACT New Zealand ACTs Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden Party has today successful triggered an urgent debate in Parliament about the cyber security breaches at Waikato Hospital. It follows documents from Waikato District Health Board being released onto the dark …
ACT’s Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden Party has today successful triggered an urgent debate in Parliament about the cyber security breaches at Waikato Hospital.
It follows documents from Waikato District Health Board being released onto the dark web after the ransomware attack that crippled five hospitals’ IT systems in May.
“What’s happened at Waikato is not the first cyber security breach that has impacted the government and has impacted public trust,” says Ms van Velden.
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 3:38 pm
ACT’s Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden Party has
today successful triggered an urgent debate in Parliament
about the cyber security breaches at Waikato
Hospital.
It follows documents from Waikato District
Health Board being released onto the dark web after the
ransomware attack that crippled five hospitals IT systems
in May.
“What’s happened at Waikato is not the
first cyber security breach that has impacted the government
and has impacted public trust,” says Ms van
Velden.
“The pattern was first seen in the Reserve
Bank attack and then the NZX in February.
“This
pattern is quickly eroding trust in government to get it
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