Nouse: Counselling service admits breach of trust after releasing over 300 emails

Posted by Dave Lee on 19 March 2008 at 11:49
Tags: Student Journalism

Raf Sanchez reports on a potentially catastrophic blunder from admin staff at York University:

Minutes after the mistake was made a second email was sent out reading: “URGENT PLEASE DELETE LAST EMAIL  (Access to Counselling Building)  Information was included that should not have been sent”. Two hours later the Counselling Service sent out a ‘recall’, designed to delete emails in the recipients’ inbox. However, the recall email also included the 344 addresses in the cc field, revealing all the emails for a second time.

Tags: Student Journalism