"Personal details submitted by applicants for a job at Tate art galleries have been leaked online, exposing their addresses, salaries and the phone numbers of their referees, the Guardian has learned. The records, running to hundreds of pages, appeared on a website unrelated to the government-sponsored organisation, which operates the Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries in London, Tate St Ives in Cornwall and Tate Liverpool."
"Max Kohler, a 29-year-old computer programmer, discovered his data appeared in the leak on Thursday after one of the referees on his application was emailed by a stranger who had seen the data dump online. Kohler found that it included his last salary, the name of his current employer, and names, emails and addresses of his other referees, as well as lengthy answers he had given to job application questions."
"It's very disappointing and disillusioning, he said. You spend time putting in all this sensitive information, salaries from previous jobs, home addresses, and they don't take care of this information, and have it floating around in public. They should take it down, apologise and there should be a report into how this happened and what they are going to do to ensure it does not happen again. It must be mistrained staff or process error."
Personal details submitted by applicants for a Tate website developer role were leaked online, exposing addresses, salaries, referees' phone numbers, emails and other sensitive information. The records ran to hundreds of pages and appeared on a website unrelated to the organisation. Information for 111 individuals is included; applicants are unnamed but referees are often listed with mobile numbers and personal email addresses. One applicant, Max Kohler, discovered his data after a referee was contacted by a stranger; his leaked details included last salary, current employer and lengthy application answers. Reported data security incidents to the ICO have increased substantially in recent quarters.
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