{"id":228033,"date":"2026-01-11T10:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228033\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:01:12","slug":"managemyhealth-data-breach-86000-northland-patients-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228033\/","title":{"rendered":"ManageMyHealth data breach: 86,000 Northland patients affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson for Health NZ said it was estimated that 86,000 people in Northland were impacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Health NZ said it would be ensuring support is available for those in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Alex Pimm, group director of operations for Northland, said it was looking for funding to allow general practices to provide consultation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">He said it would be for those impacted to discuss their clinical information as well as for mental wellbeing support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Those who are impacted by the data breach will also be provided with an 0800 number to call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Pimm said Health NZ used ManageMyHealth in Northland to enable patients to access some documents \u2013 such as their hospital discharge summaries, clinic letters, and referral notifications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis system allows consumers, with or without a primary care provider, to access this important information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhile Health NZ\u2019s own data systems have not been compromised, any issue involving patient information is taken very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Northland is the only area of the country where Health NZ uses ManageMyHealth to share information with patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for Health NZ said it was estimated that 86,000 people in Northland were impacted. Health NZ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135980,41110,4378,3105,127691,111,43,139,1067,69,6293],"class_list":["post-228033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-135980","tag-affected","tag-breach","tag-data","tag-managemyhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-patients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228033","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=228033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}