These are just under 23,000 CVs, or applicant profiles as they are called, where the applicant himself has chosen to make his profile searchable for employers.
However, it is not permitted to make a machine retrieval of data from the service.
Companies may not apply for the position unless they have a specific job offer.
In this case, the company had tried to retrieve a large number of profiles per hour via its employer account.
The Swedish Public Employment Service's alarm system had not paid attention to the retrieval attempt, but the incident was discovered in connection with an investigation.
The authority has now closed two employer accounts and made reports to both the Privacy Protection Authority and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB.
"Big volumes"
The incident, which the newspaper Arbetet was the first to report on, has also been reported to the police as a data breach and illegal use.
The Swedish Public Employment Service is also investigating the possibility of lowering the limit for how many CVs can be taken home per hour.
- As there are large volumes of personal data that the company has retrieved, we consider the incident to be serious, but the CV information contained in the service should not be of a sensitive nature, says Malin Sahlin, unit manager for Rusta and match in a statement on Arbetsförmedlingen's intranet.
She also states that the Swedish Public Employment Service has identified which people have been affected and will inform them via e-mail.
In the letter, the authority writes that “Your CV is one of those that the company was looking for.
There is a risk that the search has been made in order to market the company's own matching services.
This means that you can, for example, receive marketing emails stating that your contact information comes from the Swedish Public Employment Service. ”
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