IM: No action to be taken following email data leak

This is a follow-up to a breach reported in May in the Isle of Man. EnergyFM reports:

No action will be taken against the Income Tax Division despite an email it sent out about Twitter breaching data protection rules.

On May 20th the division sent out 10 sets of e-mails to 500 recipients advertising its new social media feed – however the blind copy function wasn’t used.

This meant the personal data of each person was visible resulting in almost 2.3 million disclosures of personal information – it’s now been ruled that broke the Data Protection Act.