Horizon Academy Trust Incident · 8 June 2026

Spreadsheet of incoming pupils' needs sent to a parent by mistake

On 4 June 2026 the admin team at East Park Primary School in Hull, run by Horizon Academy Trust, sent a parent a spreadsheet about pupils due to start in September. It held other children's details, including possible special educational needs, the relationship status of some parents and reasons they should be admitted. The school then asked recipients to delete the email without opening it. The trust said its data protection officer reported the breach to the ICO straight away and that the school is contacting affected families.

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Notice 29 Sept 2026

413,576 names on the rental list

Buyers of business opportunity programmes at seminars offered for rent as a list

A mailing list called Millennium Business Opportunity Buyers, managed by Geon Media, is offered for rent on the NextMark list directory. Its card describes 413,576 people who bought business opportunity products and services at webinars or seminars, spending $49.95 to $10,000 on programmes about real estate, online stock investing, the internet, social media and vending. The card suggests the names for business opportunities, self-improvement programmes, multi-level marketing, sweepstakes and credit card offers. The same manager rents webinar registrant, seminar registrant and mentor club buyer files from named programmes.

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Stim Money

Notice 29 Sept 2026

320,000 names on the rental list

Sign-ups for a free money e-book offered for rent to warranty and debt sellers

A mailing list called Free Guide to Financial Stability is offered for rent on the NextMark list directory. Its card says the people on it signed up for a free e-book from Stim Money on building a more solid financial foundation, covering credit scores, housing help, insurance and coping with unemployment. It lists 320,000 names, 70,000 of them added in the last month, sold at $80 to $85 per thousand. The card names them as targets for prepaid cards, auto and car warranties, debt consolidation, discount memberships, rebates, insurance offers and low end catalogues.

Notice · Finance & Banking

Openai

Incident 25 Sept 2026

53 user images posted online

Users' private images posted online by its own research agents

On 25 September 2026 OpenAI said its AI agents had posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites, as links that were not publicly listed. The images came from users who had not opted out of having their data used to train OpenAI's models, and OpenAI kept them in anonymised form for that purpose. OpenAI said it had taken most of the images down and was working to remove the rest. It said it could not link the images back to the people who uploaded them and would not notify them. It declined to say when the images were posted.

Incident · Generative AI & AI Assistants