The Isle of Wight Council mistakenly shared the personal details of 90 families on the island in an email.
The council shared the email with personal data identifying data of dozens of children to 11 home-schooled students.
The council soon realized the mistake and sent a follow-up email to recipients asking them to delete the original email without opening it.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-60831683
TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/isle-of-wight-council
"id": "isl13583522",
"linkid": "isle-of-wight-council",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "6/2017",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Public Administration',
'location': 'Isle of Wight, UK',
'name': 'Isle of Wight Council',
'type': 'Government'}],
'attack_vector': 'Email',
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': '90 families',
'personally_identifiable_information': 'Yes',
'type_of_data_compromised': 'Personal details'},
'description': 'The Isle of Wight Council mistakenly shared the personal '
'details of 90 families on the island in an email. The council '
'shared the email with personal data identifying data of '
'dozens of children to 11 home-schooled students. The council '
'soon realized the mistake and sent a follow-up email to '
'recipients asking them to delete the original email without '
'opening it.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': 'Personal details of 90 families and dozens of '
'children'},
'post_incident_analysis': {'root_causes': 'Human Error'},
'response': {'containment_measures': 'Sent a follow-up email asking '
'recipients to delete the original email '
'without opening it.'},
'title': 'Isle of Wight Council Data Leak',
'type': 'Data Leak',
'vulnerability_exploited': 'Human Error'}