{"id":244116,"date":"2026-01-21T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:24:10","slug":"privacy-commissioner-announces-inquiry-into-manage-my-health-cybersecurity-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244116\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Commissioner announces inquiry into Manage My Health cybersecurity breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4M2AELJ_copyright_image_278211\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council Michael Webster stands for the National Anthem\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPrivacy Commissioner Michael Webster.<br \/>\nPhoto: VNP \/ Phil Smith\n<\/p>\n<p>The Privacy Commissioner has announced an inquiry into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/582969\/managemyhealth-confirms-cyber-breach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manage My Health cybersecurity breach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Webster said it is clear a privacy investigation is needed given the scale of the incident, the sensitivity of the information and some of the systemic issues that were identified.<\/p>\n<p>He said the inquiry will help determine whether Manage My Health had appropriate security safeguards and, if not, why not.<\/p>\n<p>It will also look at what steps will be taken to prevent such an incident happening again.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of December Manage My Health confirmed it had been hacked, later revealing that information of about 120,000 users could be affected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":"Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster. Photo: VNP \/ Phil Smith The Privacy Commissioner has announced an inquiry into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-244116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244116","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=244116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}