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NHS trust fined £185,000 for data leak
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £185,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for for posting private details of staff online.
6,574 staff members were affected, when the trust inadvertently published confidential data such as National Insurance numbers, dates of birth, religious beliefs and sexual orientations in March 2014.
The leak went unnoticed for 10 months and staff were not notified for a further five months.
Stephen Eckersley, head of enforcement at the ICO, said: “This trust played fast and loose with the highly sensitive and private information that was entrusted to them. It seems they ignored their duty to put rules in place to protect staff who deliver hospital services to others.
“Any measures taken to protect this information from reaching the public domain were woefully inadequate or non-existent. The fact that the error went unnoticed for so long beggars belief.”
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