The Byron Shire Council has apologised for a data breach last week that resulted in the publication of phone numbers, home and email addresses for 32 Byron Shire residents online.
Bay FM’s Community Newsroom noticed the personal details in an attachment to this week’s planned council meeting agenda on Thursday 21st November and immediately alerted council staff.
The council later emailed a statement saying two confidential report attachments were mistakenly published on 19 November before the mistake was corrected two days later
‘These reports contained personal information from 32 applicants who submitted expressions of interest to be on the Place Planning Collective,’ the statement read.
‘The mistake was human error and Council is sincerely sorry.
‘We are extremely sorry and we unreservedly apologise to all 32 people for this data breach and any distress it may cause.’
Council staff were reportedly reviewing the incident ‘with the intention of making sure this does not happen again,’ said Director Corporate and Community Services Esmeralda Davis.
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