The Personal records of hundreds of students at a melbourne high school have been published mistakenly, in yet another example of “horrendous” human error.
The Victorian education minister James Merlino, said his department would launch an inquiry into the breach at the breach at Strathmore secondary college.
“Human error was believed to be the cause of the publication of more than 300 students’ records on the school’s intranet service which, according to News Corp reports, included information about medical and mental health conditions, medications, and learning and behavioural difficulties. ” – The guardian reported
The data appears to have been online only for about 24 hours, However, the information leaked is extremely sensitive and should never have been publicly available.
