NZ Ministry of Health 2015 Technical Error (Q13347)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | NZ Ministry of Health 2015 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2015
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A Ministry of Health email blunder has spilled private medical information of 24,000 Kiwis. Officials are investigating how a spreadsheet of National Health Index (NHI) numbers, containing the birth and death dates of 24,092 people, was emailed to around 950 pharmacists yesterday morning. The email was supposed to be sent internally. Security on NHI numbers is extremely high, with access restricted to health professionals and agencies governed by the Health Information Privacy Code. Access to the data, which also includes gender and location details of an individual, is comprehensively logged and subject to a signed agreement, with the system recording details each time an NHI is looked at - including which NHI, who looked at it, when and what they did with it. An audit programme monitors (English)
