The government of New Zealand is getting a lot of bad press recently over breaches. Two breaches involving accidental disclosure of information (not reported on this blog because they did not involve any health information) were reported by the Earthquake Commission (EQC) and a recipient of the unintended disclosure. And now there has been another breach disclosed – this one involving the Ministry of Health:
ONE News has discovered that 19 people have been affected by a printing error which saw high use cards sent out to the wrong addresses.
A Dunedin woman who received her son’s high use card in the mail said attached to it was another letter with another high use card for someone else.
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The Ministry of Health has apologised to all 19 people affected by the glitch.
As a precaution it is issuing 366 replacement cards for all those in the batch of cards thought to be affected, and cancelling those sent out.
Read more on TVNZ.