P2019-ND-042

GlaxoSmithKline Inc., ViiV Healthcare ULC, and ID Biomedical Corporation of Quebec

In May and November 2016, an Excel spreadsheet was distributed via email for the purpose of ?conducting performance rating calibration meetings with people managers?. A hidden tab/sheet that contained the information at issue was inadvertently included in the spreadsheet. As a result, the recipients of the emails inadvertently received the personal information of employees for whom they were not the intended recipients. The incident was discovered when two recipients of the email discovered the hidden tab/sheet and logged incident reports on November 17, 2016.

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