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NT information commissioner seeks to distance himself from privacy breach of public health files

Peter Shoyer says he was contacted by the government regarding the privacy breach. (ABC News: Ian Redfearn)

The Northern Territory information commissioner says he offered only "brief advice" to the government regarding a privacy breach of medical records before the incident was “managed in-house” and subsequently kept secret.

The ABC revealed on Thursday that more than 50,000 patients had their health files sent between two NT government departments in 2018 and 2019 as part of a software system upgrade.

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