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The BBC News reports that:
The 56 Dean Street clinic in London's Soho sent out the names and email addresses of 780 patients when a newsletter was issued to people who attend the clinic. Patients were supposed to be blind-copied into the email but instead details were sent as a group email.
From an interview with one patient:
One man, a 40-year-old public sector worker, has been HIV positive for 13 years and has been using the Dean Street clinic for five. He said: "I felt sick when I realised what had happened. I first saw the email at work but ignored it as I was busy. I then looked at it when I was on the way home from work. I couldn't breathe. I'm concerned who will get this information. If it ends up in the hands of the wrong people, such as hate groups, it could be dynamite."
Further:
Fellow patient James ... said: "I was travelling back from the pride parade in Manchester on Monday when I received this email. I couldn't believe it when I got it and I've been full of worry since. I am not ready to disclose my HIV status to my wider friends or family. I fear now that I have no choice."
Finally, a friend informs me that a breach of privacy at another clinic may be widely reported within the next few days.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Friday September 04 2015, @04:24AM
That and make it explicitly easy to see who is getting the email you are writing and explicitly easy to fill in the To, CC, and BCC fields. I last used Outlook a few years ago and it made it difficult to see who was in which field. At home I use Thunderbird and it's even worse to populate the boxes and see who is getting what. It's limited to three lines and each line can have To, CC, or BCC, but to see the whole list? You have to scroll thought those three lines and click on tiny individual hard-to-see buttons.
Hey... here's another idea that can help with this: Have premade lists default to CC or BCC (changeable by user).