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Sexual violence and family harm victims will be living in terror that their private details could be among a cache of hacked medical information, an advocate says.
More than 400,000 files have been stolen from the ManageMyHealth platform.
It was a shocking data breach of highly sensitive information involving about 15,000 patients' records, independent advocate Claire Buckley said.
"The problem with that is that anybody who has used that system will now be vulnerable and potentially re-traumatised and potentially unnecessarily re-traumatised because their data may not be part of the hack.
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