Up to 8,000 An Post customers who asked the company to redirect their mail to a new address have had their details shared with a subsidiary without their knowledge. Up to 8,000 An Post customers who asked the company to redirect their mail to a new address have had their details shared with a subsidiary without their knowledge. Up to 8,000 customers affected by data breach at An PostThousands of customers who input their new details in the company's mail re-direction service have had their data inadvertently included in a file containing details from customers who gave permission for their name and address to be used to update external databases. The file containing this data was sent to Dublin-based Precision Marketing Information Limited which trades as Data Ireland. An Post could not identify exactly how many customers were impacted but wrote out to over 8,000 people to ensure that all who may have had their data shared without their knowledge were informed.

Source: Irish Independent March 27, 2018 09:00 UTC