28 January 2020 Issue 372 The official student newspaper of the University of East Anglia | concrete-online.co.uk
Striving for Truth Est. 1992
UEA paid out more Interview:
than £140,000 to
student data leak victims Chris Matthews Editor-in-Chief
Concrete can reveal UEA has paid student victims of data leaks more than £140,000 in compensation over the past five years. In comparison the universities of Bristol, Durham, Exeter, Warwick and York have all paid out £0 over the same time period. A Freedom of Information request by Concrete discovered while UEA itself has not directly paid data leak victims in the past five years, its insurers have paid out a total of £142,512.16. UEA has had close to 20 data leaks in the past five
years, which have affected hundreds of students. The largest, in early 2017, saw hundreds of American Studies students receive sensitive information detailing the reasons why individual students were granted extenuating circumstances. Ian Callaghan, the chief resource officer and university secretary at UEA, told Concrete: “This figure [£142,512.16] relates entirely to a single breach in June 2017, which
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