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Wrexham Council Email Blunder Reveals Personal Data

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Dissent

Rob Taylor reports:

Workers at Wrexham Council were left with red faces yesterday after an email blunder saw personal information of residents being wrongly shared.

Hundreds of names and personal e-mail addresses were divulged in a mail out of the authority’s annual tenant survey.

One Wrexham.com reader described the error as “the council dropping a nut” and another tweeted us saying “just checked my emails to find that wrexham council has breached data protection laws and released my email address to the public!“.

Read more on Wrexham.com


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