February 2022 - DRM Legal - Data Breach Compensation Experts

Data breach at Greensward Academy

Sensitive information about pupils was leaked to parents and students following a data breach at Greensward Academy, in Hockley, Essex. A teacher at the school accidentally shared a mock examinations timetable via Google Classroom, unaware that the document also contained sensitive information. The document was shared with students and parents of students in year 11. [...]

Confidential patient files left outside an unused surgery in Warwick

Priory Medical Centre in Warwick closed its medical centre in June 2021. And they relocated to a new surgery with the same name. But outside the unused surgery, they left an unlocked cabinet, which contained patients’ confidential files. The abandoned files contained confidential information about patients, including names, dates of birth, addresses and NHS numbers. [...]