Personal information belonging to around 14,000 employees at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been emailed to hundreds of NHS managers and 24 external accounts. The breach occurred when a hidden worksheet containing the names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers, gender, ethnicity and salary information was accidentally included in a spreadsheet. Chief executive of the NHS trust, James Sumner, has written to the data subjects informing them of the breach.
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