GB Capita Dec 2017 Technical Error (Q12146)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | GB Capita Dec 2017 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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December 2017
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Capita has admitted a bug in an information management system used by 21,000 UK schools could have incorrectly linked contact details to the wrong pupils an incident with huge implications for pupils data protection. The error, which has been pinned on a December 2017 upgrade to the Schools Information Management System, could have resulted in schools sending out information about pupils to the wrong address. (English)
