Personal details of 15,000 South Lanarkshire council staff, including their salaries, were posted online.
The leak, which happened last month, followed an application which asked for details of staff pay grades.
In response, a spreadsheet was uploaded which was only supposed to include "anonymised employee data".The data shared, which was discovered last week, is understood to have included names, workplaces, salaries and National Insurance numbers.Image source,The details were published in a spreadsheet that was only supposed to have included anonymised data
A South Lanarkshire Council spokesman told BBC Scotland: "Unfortunately as a result of human error, the spreadsheet contained a second page of personal data that had not been anonymised."To the best of our knowledge the information was not accessed, and we believe the data could not be used in a way that would be harmful to those involved."A report has also been submitted to the information commissioner.
"Staff deserve more than a simply assurance from the council that policies and procedures have been tightened. "They deserve an investigation, the fullest possible explanation of how this happened and to be told exactly what measures are being taken to stop it happening again."Related Topics
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