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New ransom deadline arrives
Deceased patients among those to have data breached
Manage My Health response labelled "shambolic, frustrating and slow"
Patient told she is caught up in breach after being earlier told she wasn't
A new ransom deadline is thought to have arrived as criticism mounts of Manage My Health's response to its hacking and massive data breach.
In an interview with RNZ this week, the country's largest patient portal believed the new deadline was 5am on Friday.
It would not be drawn on whether it was prepared to pay.
The College of GPs said Manage My Health's reaction to the cyber attack had been shambolic, frustrating and slow.
"Patients are really frustrated, GPs are frustrated, there's mixed amounts of information coming out," president Luke Bradford said.
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"Some practices are being told the number of patients they have affected but not which patients, my practice for instance was told we had 59 patients but not the patients' names, some practices are being given the patients' names, Manage My Health has said they're going to contact patients but that hasn't happened particularly quickly yet."
He said his own pract
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