Ambulance staff contact details shared in online data breach
BBC Scotland is reporting that contact details of Scottish Ambulance staff have been published in a serious data breach
The Scottish Ambulance Service has confirmed employees work contact details were temporarily shared online, but have now been removed…
The BBC has seen an email sent to staff on Friday evening, revealing the data breach.
The message said: “For a time, the names and telephone numbers of staff, as they appear on our internal directory, were available on a section of our website that could be accessed by the general public…the web pages in question have now been removed.”…
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: “We are investigating an internal issue where the work contact details of members of staff were temporarily made available online…
Tommy Campbell, regional officer for Unite, told the BBC: “I am shocked and disappointed that the ambulance service as an employer has breached the contact details of employees.
“I have written to Milne Weir, the regional director and I expect to know what exact details have been breached and who will have access to those.
“We now demand a full investigation and and we expect the ambulance service to communicate with employees on what has been released in the public domain.”…