Education body apologises after breach of data security

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has apologised for a data security breach which affected a handful of staff.

The breach resulted in at least one person having sight of the personal data relating to some current and some former CETB staff.

The compromised data included the names and addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers, the employee numbers and the PPS numbers of the 10 staff. No banking or financial data was compromised.