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Excel pivot table data leak leads to £120,000 fine for London council
By Graham Cluley on Thu, 04/19/2018
London's Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea has been fined £120,000 (approximately US $170,000) by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after it unlawfully identified 943 people who owned vacant properties in the borough. How did the sensitive data leak out? Because of a sloppy understanding of how to wipe information properly out of Excel...