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Held to Ransom - Waikato DHB IT hack swamps general practice
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Held to Ransom - Waikato DHB IT hack swamps general practice
Thursday 3 June 2021, 09:00 AM

A weary Dilawar Singh of Hamilton Lake Clinic
New Zealand’s most disruptive public sector cyberattack to date – a ransomware attack on Waikato DHB – interfered with care in five hospitals and numerous general practices. Simon Maude counts the costs, and asks whether the crisis is an opportunity to better protect health services and data
Waikato DHB expected it would take three days to set things right… GPs, community nurses, pharmacists and allied health clinicians across the Waikato