The ICO has fined the Bloomsbury Patient Network after it inadvertently revealed the identities of HIV patients through an email error.
The network, that offers support to patients, sent out a newsletter via email using a list of email addresses in the -˜to' field rather than the -˜bcc' field to 200 patients. On receiving the email the recipients on the list could see all the individual email addresses. Many of them contained people's names which resulted in 56 patient's full or partial names being revealed.