Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand is currently investigating a network issue involving its IT service provider that affected access to thousands of data related to its human care services. body and heart on their network.
On Tuesday, the organization said access to certain information held by an IT service provider was blocked following a cyber attack.
This includes approximately 8,500 bereavement care service records from Middlemore Hospital dating back to 2015 and 5,500 records from the hereditary heart disease registry dating back to 2011 and was obtained by clinicians in Auckland, Wellington. , Tauranga, Waikato and Nelson visit.
However, the incident did not cause any disruption to Te Whatu Ora’s medical services as its system was not directly targeted. Furthermore, to date there is no evidence that inaccessible data has been accessed or downloaded illegally.
“We understand that this situation can be upsetting to everyone. We want to reassure the public that we are rapidly working with other government agencies and cybersecurity experts to fully identify the situation.” the nature, extent and potential impact of this incident.As further events are established, we will work to communicate these as quickly as possible,” Te Whatu Ora said in a statement. declare.
“These investigations are at a very early stage and will take some time to complete,” it added.
Additionally, the issue affected six other health regulators whose services are also hosted by the same IT service provider. These are the New Zealand Board of Optometrists and Optometrists, the Orthopedic Board, the Podiatricians Council, the New Zealand Board of Psychiatrists, the Dietitians Council and the Physiotherapist Council. New Zealand therapy.
Te Whatu Ora has reached out to each organization to offer support.
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Also on Tuesday, Te Whatu Ora released an independent analysis report on the previous Waikato County Health Board cyberattack last year. Prepared by local cybersecurity expert InPhySec Security, the report recommended among other things an upgrade to the health system’s Coordinated Incident Management System, logging and systematic monitoring its data warehouse and conduct cyber attack simulations.
In addition to Te Whatu Ora and Waikato DHB, Pinnacle Midlands Health Network also recently reported an IT breach. In late September, hackers were able to access from a third-party IT server six years’ worth of health information and some of Pinnacle’s corporate information. The compromised data was confirmed to have been leaked on the dark web in October. Pinnacle is still trying to determine whose information was exposed in the leak.
