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UK: Details of ‘vulnerable kids’ uploaded to Birmingham City Council website in ‘serious’ data breach

Posted on March 20, 2021 by Dissent

Nick Horner reports:

A “serious” online data breach at Birmingham City Council saw personal information – allegedly the details of “vulnerable children” – put at risk.

Data, said to relate to youngsters entitled to free bus passes, was uploaded “in error” by staff and was “potentially available externally”, the authority said in an email raising the alarm, sent on Friday, March 19.

Read more on Birmingham Live.


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