{"id":218723,"date":"2026-01-06T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218723\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:34:09","slug":"neighbourly-gets-injunction-to-stop-release-of-hacked-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218723\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourly gets injunction to stop release of hacked information"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Neighbourly<\/p>\n

\nNeighbourly was temporarily shut down on New Year’s Day after the breach was uncovered.
\nPhoto: Screenshot\n<\/p>\n

The owner of a hacked social media platform says they have a court injunction to stop private information being released.<\/p>\n

Stuff Limited owns Neighbourly and co-owns the Stuff news website, which is reporting they have been granted a High Court injunction to stop the information being shared.<\/p>\n

The Neighbourly website was temporarily shut down on New Year’s Day when the breach was discovered but is back online.<\/p>\n

An IT security expert has previously told RNZ that the hack has included GPS details which could identify people’s homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbourly was temporarily shut down on New Year’s Day after the breach was uncovered. Photo: Screenshot The owner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[48,138,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-218723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-podcasts","16":"tag-public-radio","17":"tag-radio-new-zealand","18":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}