My data has been breached

Mumsnet is not a public body and therefore not subject to the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act. Even if it were, the chances of the details of the reporters being released to the OP are minimal. That could constitute another breach in itself.

You can't submit an FOI to MN.

I'm no expert but I believe the request would need to be a SARN under DPA, for one's own personal data? With a side complaint about it being part of wider GDPR breaches?

Then if it's redacted you can ask the ICO to adjudicate on that.

Would we have been emailed had this happened to us as well?

Your email address is not your data, it’s just your email address

Wrong. Personal email addresses are personal data and protected by GDPR.

That level of information wouldn’t be disclosed under an FOI.

So... You think it's only important not to breach data as long as the person has a common name? What if that person's name is Zebediah Barrington-Smythe? Would it be less acceptable to leak that person's data? In the eyes of the law, Zebediah and Emma are equally protected.

If your car insurance company breached your data, allowing other customers to see data that could identify you, would you say "oh well never mind?"

If someone's email address was [email protected], and she had posted on the property board that she wanted advice on a house she had bought in Stoke on Trent, it wouldn't take a genius to look on Facebook and work out how many Patricia Greens there were in stoke on trent of the right age and identify her. She might have also posted about being abused by her husband, or that she's a rape survivor, or asking for advice on bullying at work, or any number of things that could cause problems if they become known. Mumsnet is supposed to be anonymous which is fine until they have another data breach.

That's why there are such strict laws about data protection. It doesn't matter why someone might misuse data. What is important is that companies like Mumsnet should protect data of individuals so that it can't be misused. It's all very well scoffing at someone who is concerned about their data being breached. But Mumsnet has a legal obligation to make sure that it does not happen and whether someone can work anything out from her email address is entirely irrelevant to the issue.

accounts can be found in some places with email addresses

If I were you OP I'd put in a FOI request to Mumsnet to ask for the names and email addresses of the people who have your address, if mumsnet wont tell you. And then fight your case if you aren't happy with the result. Good luck

exactly

Justine does not say on the other thread that Mumsnet have reported the breach to the ICO, she says Our DPO has been informed and on his advice we'll report it the ICO if appropriate. - key words being 'if appropriate', I think. Have they had the advice back from the DPO yet?

In the OP's defence mumsnet have not said they will report themselves to the ICO.

MNHQ said

Our DPO has been informed and on his advice we'll report it the ICO if appropriate

The DPO is mumsnet data protection officer. Mumsnet said they will report to the ICO if the DPO said it needs to be reported.

"believe they were not malicious"... Only you know what was in your post, op, but what are the chances of three different posters being genuinely outraged enough to report you?
Very slim, I'd say. What an utter fuckup.

/ flame suit on.

I think you’re over blowing this.

A data breach is when someone has your data. Your email address is not your data, it’s just your email address. I think to suggest another poster might use that in some way is a bit far fetched.

Many thousands know my email through work, any one of them could have their computer hacked. I do get some spam like we all do, but in itself another email address added to the bazillions of email addresses available to hackers matters not.

just my 2p

Can you look at your posts from when this happened and see if any have been deleted, might be difficult though if you posted on loads of threads.

@thistimewontyousaveme wow. You think the OP should just suck it up?

If it happened to me, I'd be fucked. My email is my name, and my name is unusual. If you had my email you'd be able to find out exactly what my job is and where I work. You could do what you wanted with that information. It doesn't bare thinking about.

Why do you care that someone has your email address and name, unless its very unique? There's a million Emma Watsons and no one can really do anything with this information

Why won't mnhq tell you what post was reported?