Redundancy paperwork - data breach?

mawk86

Hello 

my partner revived notification on Thursday afternoon that his employer was going into liquidation, and he would be unemployed from the next day. 

The following day he received paperwork in the post from a firm dealing with the liquidation. Part of the paperwork, lists every employees full name, their home address and how much everyone is owed by the company. I feel really uncomfortable that our address has been sent to his 71 former colleagues. 

Would this be considered a data breach or is it standard practice in the liquidation process? 

Andy_L

It's a breach. What do you want as an outcome?

You could shop them to the ICO
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/report-a-breach/

ETA: ignore me, I'm talking nonsense 

JCS1

Andy_L said:

It's a breach. What do you want as an outcome?

You could shop them to the ICO
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/report-a-breach/

Is it a breach? It is usual for reports to creditors to include this information.

Andy_L

JCS1 said:

Andy_L said:

It's a breach. What do you want as an outcome?

You could shop them to the ICO
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/report-a-breach/

Is it a breach? It is usual for reports to creditors to include this information.

Good point, I'd totally failed to realise that the OP is a creditor of the bankrupt company