[4][5] On 1 June 2022, Vocus Group merged with telecommunications company 2degrees.

[2] On 15 August 2008, Slingshot came under criticism from the public and the media about a problem with their web cache.

The error caused users logging into websites such as Gmail, Facebook, Bebo and TradeMe to be given access to the accounts of other Slingshot customers who were using those websites at the same time, instead of their own accounts.

[18] Similar incidents occurred with Slingshot in September 2007 and May 2008[19][20] In December 2013 Slingshot was fined $NZ 250,000 after it admitted transferring competitors' customers to its business without authority.

Slingshot pleaded guilty to 50 charges under the New Zealand Fair Trading Act in the Auckland District Court and admitted it had transferred 27 customers' accounts from other ISPs to Slingshot without the customers' authority.