The United Nations’ children’s agency UNICEF has leaked thousands of individuals’ personal data through its online learning portal Agora.
An email was mistakenly sent on 26 August to 20,000 Agora users containing the private data belonging to 8,253 people who enrolled on the platform’s immunisation courses.
Agora offers courses on child rights, humanitarian action, data, research and is used by UNICEF staff and members of the public.
“This was an inadvertent data leak caused by an error when an internal user ran a report,” said Najwa Mekki, media chief at UNICEF in an email to Devex.
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Source: ITPro