RADIO NEW ZEALAND – An error with school payroll system Novopay involved the private details of 530 staff at 10 schools, the company behind it says.
Principals said they had been sent the personal details and pay rates of principals and teachers at other schools.
They said they had been asked by Novopay to destroy downloaded copies of the reports.
Crown-owned Education Payroll Ltd, which runs the payroll system, said the information was accessed by 552 “authorised users” — either principals or school administrators.
It said the users would have been accessing the system in order to check that next week’s pay-day would be correct.
But, instead, each of them would have been able to see the data from one of the 10 affected schools.
Its COO, Duncan Boennic, said the lapse was deeply regrettable and it apologised for it.
