Insurance Business Magazine reports:
Digital medicines platform MediMap is seeking urgent court orders in New Zealand after an individual claiming to be behind a cyber incident circulated what appears to be patient information to news organisations – an incident that is drawing attention to cyber risk, privacy exposure, and the role of cyber insurance across the health and aged-care sector.
The incident, first identified on Feb. 22, has led MediMap to keep its system offline while it investigates how the platform was accessed and what data was altered or obtained. The company’s system is widely used by aged-care, disability, hospice, and community health providers to support prescribing, dispensing, and medication administration – making the disruption and potential liability exposure a point of focus for insurers and brokers active in health and long-term care.
MediMap said it is moving to obtain an injunction that would bar any party from accessing, using, copying, sharing, or publishing data believed to have been taken from its systems, and to limit further dissemination of the material online. “We understand this situation is concerning for residents, patients, their families, and healthcare providers. We sincerely apologise for any distress this may have caused,” the company said in a public statement, as reported by Stuff.
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