Mermaids transgender charity data breach exposed confidential emails

• by Ellie Hurst
• Industry News

Mermaids UK has apologized for an “inadvertent” data breach which exposed private messages between the charity and the parents of gender variant and transgender children. As first reported by the Sunday Times last week, over 1,000 pages of confidential emails were leaked online, including “intimate details of the vulnerable youngsters it [the charity] seeks to help.”