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Police Service of Northern Ireland facing £750k fine following data breach that exposed personal information of more than 9,000 staff

Posted on May 22, 2024 by Dissent

Suzanne McGonagle reports:

The PSNI is facing a £750,000 fine following the spreadsheet error that exposed the personal information of its entire workforce.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the fine comes after information relating to more than 9,000 serving PSNI officers and staff was published online in August last year.

An investigation by the ICO has provisionally found the PSNI’s “internal procedures and sign-off protocols for the safe disclosure of information were inadequate”.

It comes after the personal information – including surname, initials, rank and role of all 9,483 serving PSNI officers and staff – was included in a “hidden” tab of a spreadsheet published online in response to a freedom of information request (FOI).

Read more at Irish News.

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