Phone numbers of three NZ Cabinet ministers and party leader in Facebook hack attack
8 Apr, 2021 05:45 AM
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The hack of 533 million Facebook users names happened in 2019. Image / 123rf
Audrey Young is political editor for the New Zealand Heraldaudrey.young@nzherald.co.nz@audreyNZH
Three Government ministers and one political party leader are among Kiwis whose personal details were part of a Facebook hack attack. Phone numbers of Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta, Economic Development Minister Stuart Nash, Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Priyanca Rhadakrishnan, and Act leader David Seymour are among at least 67,000 New Zealand numbers that were hacked in a larger theft of 533 million Facebook users.
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