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DOL Sent Employees’ Health Data to Personal Email

8/28/2026

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Story summary
  • U.S. Labor Department sent a spreadsheet containing employees’ reasonable-accommodation health data to a personal email address.
  • An internal incident report dated July 22 identified an authorized employee who sent the spreadsheet outside the DOL domain.
  • Multiple emails with the same personally identifiable information were sent to the personal address.
  • DOL is assessing impact, destroying the data, reviewing safeguards, and evaluating AI tools to triage the accommodation-request backlog.