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"Challenging situation": Govt provides support as Manage My Health struggles with data breach

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 6 Jan 2026, 8:48am
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"Challenging situation": Govt provides support as Manage My Health struggles with data breach

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 6 Jan 2026, 8:48am

Manage My Health expects to start working in coming days through notifying people caught up by last week's data breach. 

The privately-owned health platform has now identified who's affected. 

Health Minister Simeon Brown says it needs to do better at informing the public what's happening. 

But he told Andrew Dickens the notification process will be complex and needs to be quick but accurate. 

Brown says he's spoken with the Privacy Commissioner about how they'll support that. 

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