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Tories self-refer to ICO over data breach

Revealed hundreds of personal email addresses by forgetting to BCC

Tom Allen
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Tories self-refer to ICO over data breach

The Conservative Party has breached 300+ people's personal data in email slip-up.

The UK's Conservative Party has referred itself to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), after inadvertently revealing hundreds of supporters' personal email addresses. The Party's regist...

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