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Charnwood Borough Council data breach sees residents’ personal details published online

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dissent

Dan Martin reports:

A council has apologised after publishing residents’ personal details online by mistake.

Officials at Charnwood Borough Council failed to remove from a document names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of people who responded to a survey on levels of council tax to be levied on empty homes before uploading it to its website.

The authority has emailed 134 affected people apologising for the data breach.

Read more on Leicestershire Live.

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