Sunak Vowed To Keep Brits Safe – But His Party Had An Accidental Data Breach Hours Before

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to make national security and defence a cornerstone of the next general election on Monday, as he framed the Tories as the safest bet to protect Britain.Perhaps he was not aware of what had unfolded just a few hours before.

However, the party mistakenly made this request using the “CC” button – not the “BCC”, meaning everyone who received the email could see everyone else’s email addresses. She posted a screenshot of the email on X, and asked: “Did anyone else just get this email, ostensibly from CCHQ, which has CCd rather then BCCd its recipients and thus shared hundreds of personal email addresses?”

According to the Evening Standard’s chief political correspondent, Rachael Burford, the party later emailed all recipients and acknowledged there was an “error” in the original email.

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