Well, this is a wee bit embarrassing for the City Of Hamilton:
The City of Hamilton says it “regrets” exposing the names and email addresses of hundreds of registered voters in a privacy breach Thursday.
The breach impacted approximately 450 individuals, the city said in a statement provided Friday, all of whom had registered to use the Vote by Mail process.
“Multiple email addresses were inadvertently entered in the to: line of the email instead of the bcc: line, exposing email addresses to all recipients of the email message,” the city said.
That almost sounds to me like this was done by a human being rather than an automated mailing program like Mail Chimp or Constant Contact. Because those programs would not have done this. A human can easily screw this up and create this exact situation. But at least the city is sorry for this:
Regardless, this screw up has been reported Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, and I am sure that we’ll not only get a lot more details, but we’ll also find out what the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has in mind to remedy this situation. And by that I mean take action to make sure that it doesn’t happen again and there’s some accountability as well.
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OOPS! City Of Hamilton Leaks Names And Emails Of 450 Voters
Well, this is a wee bit embarrassing for the City Of Hamilton:
The City of Hamilton says it “regrets” exposing the names and email addresses of hundreds of registered voters in a privacy breach Thursday.
The breach impacted approximately 450 individuals, the city said in a statement provided Friday, all of whom had registered to use the Vote by Mail process.
“Multiple email addresses were inadvertently entered in the to: line of the email instead of the bcc: line, exposing email addresses to all recipients of the email message,” the city said.
That almost sounds to me like this was done by a human being rather than an automated mailing program like Mail Chimp or Constant Contact. Because those programs would not have done this. A human can easily screw this up and create this exact situation. But at least the city is sorry for this:
Regardless, this screw up has been reported Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, and I am sure that we’ll not only get a lot more details, but we’ll also find out what the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has in mind to remedy this situation. And by that I mean take action to make sure that it doesn’t happen again and there’s some accountability as well.
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