Some 24 University of Canberra staff interested in a voluntary separation payout got more financial information than they anticipated when management replied on Friday – they got their figure plus full employment data, including pay, for all UoC staff. That’s “all” as in everybody. With admirable understatement Vice Chancellor Deep Saini advised all staff yesterday the data “should not have been sent to the employees that received it.” “The data breach has been remedied and that there is unlikely to be any significant risk of harm caused to employees,” he added.
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