The accidental publication of a spreadsheet containing more than 345,000 pieces of data on the website “WhatDoTheyKnow” stemmed from a Freedom of Information (FoI) request which had asked for a breakdown of Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) staff and their ranks (the exact question was “Could you provide the number
How to prevent data breaches and mitigate human error
Lessons from the data breach at the Police Service of NI in which personal information on its 10,000 staff was mistakenly published online.