Mermaids transgender charity data breach exposed confidential emails

From zdnet.com

Mermaids UK has apologized for an “inadvertent” data breach which exposed private messages between the charity and the parents of gender variant and transgender children.

As first reported by the Sunday Times last week, over 1,000 pages of confidential emails were leaked online, including “intimate details of the vulnerable youngsters it [the charity] seeks to help.” 

The letters, sent between 2016 and 2017, also contained the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of those reaching out to the charity.

When data breaches occur, it is often the case that cyberattackers infiltrate internal networks and steal information — and this data may be published online or sold in underground forums.

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