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UK: South Central Ambulance Service staff data breach

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Dissent

BBC reports:

The personal data of thousands of ambulance service staff has been accidentally published online, it has been revealed.

The data breach by South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) included publishing the age, sexuality and religion of almost 3,000 staff members.

The information has been revealed by a BBC Radio Berkshire Freedom of Information request to the service.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating.

The breach affected all 2,826 staff who were employed by the organisation, which covers Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire, in October 2013, and related to the data which was attached to a report on its website, SCAS said.

Read more on BBC.

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