1News reports:
Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora has begun the process of notifying around 12,000 individuals who were impacted by the alleged unauthorised data release by a former staff member.
Barry Young, 56, has denied accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes.
Health NZ chief executive Margie Apa said the first group being contacted is a large number of Covid-19 vaccinators who had their personal information made available in a downloadable file on a US-based blog.
“As soon as we found out about this, we asked for the information to be removed. It was later taken down.”
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