Manage My Health: What we know about hacker and ransom demand

A major online security breach has raised questions about how safe our private information is online.

Manage My Health’s health portal systems were compromised over the New Year, putting the data of over 120,000 users at risk.

We check in with internet security expert, Blackveil’s Adam Burns, who immediately identified flaws in the website – which isn’t unusual for Kiwi domains.

But first on The Front Page, NZ Herald senior reporter David Fisher has been following the breach, and will break down what happened, and who is behind it.

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