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A charity that supports transgender children has issued an apology for data leaks after personal emails were released. Mermaid, a British group that supports and advises transgender and non-transgender children, said he would take action as soon as he became aware of the problem on Friday.

Susie Green, the chief executive, set up a private email group to share information with trustees of charities and publish the data online, but the online platform is public, according to the Guardian.

The leaked details were first reported in the Sunday Times, which claimed that more than 1000 pages of classified emails within the organization had been accidentally posted online. The leaked information included parents'"painful" information about their children's suffering, the report said.

The Sunday Times reported: "the letter includes name, address and telephone number." Just enter the mermaid and her charity number and you can find these materials online. "

Whenever the Sunday Times reports about their parents'"pain", the mermaid says it is mainly about material, including information that identifies inside information from a small number of service users who "discuss mermaids fully and honestly". However, the charity denied this in a statement, saying the information contained internal emails from 2016 and 2017 and could only be accessed through "certain precise search terms", adding that unless the person who searched the information could not find it, otherwise he had realized that he could find it.

After contacting ICO, the charity said it was following regulatory guidance and contacting those affected.

"the general position is that an unintentional violation has been promptly corrected and reported to the ICO, and there is no evidence that anyone other than the Sunday Times has retrieved any such information. Journalists who pursue their stories," the mermaid said in a statement.

"the mermaid apologized for the violation. Even if we took timely and thorough action, we are very sorry. During the period 2016-2017, the mermaid was a small but growing organization. The mermaid now has internal processes and technical support, which should mean that such violations cannot happen now."

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