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MediaWorks data on 2.4 million used for extortion
Hackers claimed data on about 2.4 million people from New Zealand broadcaster MediaWorks and tried to extort them individually.
- Organisation
- MediaWorks (NZ)
- Disclosed
- 17 March 2024
- Affected
- 2,400,000 (claimed by attacker, unconfirmed)
- Data
- Contact details, competition entries
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- The Record ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “MediaWorks data on 2.4 million used for extortion”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 17 Mar 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-03-17-mediaworks-nz-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Record, https://therecord.media/mediaworks-new-zealand-data-breach-extortion.
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