It was in connection with the authority appointing a position as communications officer that the leak occurred when the 150 job seekers were informed by email that they had not been selected. All the applicants' contact information was in the email by mistake.
The authority regrets what happened.
It's a handling error, says department manager Joakim Sonnegård to the newspaper.
A person who was on the leaked list calls what happened "clumsy".
But it can actually cause quite a lot of damage if your current employer finds out that you are looking for other jobs. In that way, this is very serious, says the person.
