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NZ: Novopay botch up creates security breach for school staff

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Dissent

From Fuseworks Media:

Some schools have been sent the full payroll information of other schools this week in what appears to be a significant privacy breach by Novopay, the school payroll service.

The principal of Hamilton West School, Mark Penman, says his school was sent a payroll report known as the SUE report, containing the names of all staffing and their salary information from a high school in Northland. He said Novopay staff told his school that the privacy breach was “widespread”.

Read more on Voxy.  530 employees were affected.


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