{"id":5299,"date":"2016-11-03T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5299"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:40:36","slug":"centrelink-reveals-hundreds-of-user-emails-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/centrelink-reveals-hundreds-of-user-emails-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Centrelink reveals hundreds of user emails &#8211; twice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/27131442\/1478088130367.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Centrelink has apologised to hundreds of users of the\u00a0myGov\u00a0web portal\u00a0after their contact details were shared with hundreds of\u00a0strangers \u2013\u00a0twice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Centrelink response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As a result of an administrative error, your email address was unintentionally sent using the Carbon Copy (CC) rather than the Blind Copy (BCC) function in an email to a number of other individuals who had also requested to create a new\u00a0myGov\u00a0account,&#8221; Mr Box wrote<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This meant that your email address was unintentionally disclosed to the other individuals to whom the email was sent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In an attempt to recall this email, regrettably, your email address was disclosed to these same recipients a second time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Idiots. I love it when people in who live in an Exchange world think that &#8220;recall&#8221; actually does something.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/national\/public-service\/centrelink-apologises-for-new-privacy-breach-20161031-gsf1cp.html\">Centrelink apologises for new privacy breach<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centrelink has apologised to hundreds of users of the\u00a0myGov\u00a0web portal\u00a0after their contact details were shared with hundreds of\u00a0strangers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}