ITV reports:
A health trust has been hit with a £185,000 fine after it posted the private details of thousands of members of staff – including their sexual orientation – on its website.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust inadvertently published workers’ confidential data which also included their National Insurance number, date of birth and religious beliefs in March 2014, watchdogs revealed.
Read more on ITV. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, they failed to notice the breach for 11 months and then took another five months to notify those affected.
The monetary penalty notice notes that during the time that the information was exposed, “the pivot tables were accessed at least 59 times by 20 visitors. The associated data was also downloaded by persons unknown on several occasions.”