Hundreds of federal government employees had their privacy breached after the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat sent a mass email containing personal information to those claiming Phoenix pay damages with the department.
In an email sent to more than 200 claimants on May 3, the secretariat's "Severe Impacts Team" acknowledged people's claim submissions for severe impacts related to the Phoenix pay system, and told them teams were "working diligently" to process the high volume of claims and asked for their patience.
The issue, however, lay in which field the secretariat pasted claimants' emails — personal and work emails, many of which included full or partial names. Instead of "blind copying" the emails in the "BCC" field, the secretariat pasted all of the claimants emails in the "CC" field
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