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Dec 17
2010
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Personal details of every GAA member stolen and copiedPosted by: Origina Tagged in: theft , prevention , gaa , database , data protection commissioner , Data Protection , data loss , data breach
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By Ronan McGreevy, The Irish Times
THE GAA’s entire membership database containing details of over half a million people was stolen and copied, it has emerged.
The details included dates of birth, mobile and landline numbers and e-mail addresses along with sensitive medical information about 544 players. It also contains names and addresses of the GAA’s 167,175 players who are under 18.
The theft was first notified to the association on November 19th, but the information was only made public yesterday.
