Personal details of staff released in Social Protection IT breach 

The Department of Social Protection experienced an IT breach in which information was leaked to a number of staff in the department. File picture. 

Personal files of staff and former staff members at the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection were leaked in a data breach of one of the department’s IT systems. 

A malfunction in the system led to confidential information being shared with a wide number of staff in the department, the Irish Examiner has learned.