Manchester United Club is being sued by a group of its employees following an HR blunder that led to the employees confidential data being accidentally sent to 167 Causal workers hired by the Club via an email.

The data included their salary pay slips, names, addresses, National Insurance numbers along with their pension benefits and tax contributions.

According to the Daily Mail it is understood the sensitive information was contained in a single file received by casual staff employed by United across their stadium tour, catering and hospitality departments.

The incident happened six years ago and was reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

The affected employees have since lodged a High Court compensation claim, in which they argue the leaked information could be used to commit financial fraud. 

‘The club’s billionaire owners should take responsibility for this error,’ Jonathan Whittle, of Your Lawyers, which represents 32 claimants, told The Sun.

The lawsuit comes as a number of jobs could be on the line at United, after Sir Jim Ratcliffe has appointed corporate restructuring firm Interpath Advisory – an offshoot of accountancy KPMG – to undertake a major cost-cutting exercise at the club to comply with Profit and Sustainability Rules.

Manchester United club’s spokesperson said that Measures were put in place to prevent it happening again .

‘We take the data privacy of our employees very seriously and regret this isolated incident, which occurred in 2018.

‘Measures were put in place to prevent it happening again and we informed the Information Commissioner’s Office, which took no further action.’

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