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SUMMARY

Council fined £80,000 for disclosing information about allegations against a parent and the welfare of their child to the wrong recipient.
Records	1
Record Types	NAA MISC MED
Breach Type	Snail Mail
Data Family	Physical
Source	Inside - Accidental
Organization	Norfolk County Council
Other Affected/Involved Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	YES
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	Dissent

Date	Event
2011-04-01	Incident Occurred
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2012-02-13	Organization Reports Incident
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records	date	organizations
2	2011-12-06	Powys County Council

Address: Norfolk, UK
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No known costs for this incident.

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$60.00

Note that these estimates are based on the Ponemon Institute's 2009 direct costs figures from their 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. We multiply $60.00 by the number of records to obtain this figure. Keep in mind that depending on the breach, the direct costs are not always suffered by the breached organizations. In the case of credit card number breaches, the direct costs can often be suffered by banks and card issuers. Also note that this is only an estimate.