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Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home

Posted on June 13, 2025 by Dissent

How many warnings would you give employees not to send work to their personal email accounts?  And why hasn’t a government agency deployed a software solution to prevent such transmissions? 

Connor Jones reports:

Four staffers at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator data to their personal email accounts.

Three of the employees at the authority received their first written warning for emailing unspecified data, according to a Freedom of Information Act (FoI) request. The financial watchdog looks after vast amounts of data, including complaints against companies. It also regulates when organizations in the finance sector suffer data breaches, and fined credit reference agency Equifax £11 million ($15.7 million) for an incident that put millions of UK consumers at risk of financial crime.

The fourth staffer is already on their “final written warning” for emailing FCA data to themselves, which the body said violates its systems’ acceptable use policy.

Read more at The Register.

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  • FCA fines Charles Schwab UK £8.96 million over safeguarding and compliance failures
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