Government releases Manx residents' e-mail addresses

Thu, 21 May 2015

A large quantity of local e-mail addresses held by the Income Tax Division were circulated last night.

It happened when a member of staff sent an e-mail to inform people that it had joined Twitter to recipients on its mailing list.

Each of the addresses were openly copied-in - instead of being concealed for data protection purposes.

Since then, the division has apologised for what it calls an 'unacceptable lapse' in judgement - which has been put down to a 'mistake'.

A spokesperson says no other information has been released, and an internal investigation has now begun.

Data protection supervisor IaIn McDonald said although a significant error, the exposed information is not as sensitive as it could've been.