A resident was sent twelve pages of details regarding an elderly disabled lady’s benefit payments from the last three years.

This comes after it was revealed the council was guilty of another four separate data breaches from the last year.

Of the five breaches, three lots of data were sent out in a paper format, whereas two were sent electronically.

Fears have been raised about the number of data breaches at the council and how the authority deals with them.

At a meeting of the council’s audit committee, concerned resident Chris Wallace quizzed councillors and members about what the authority’s process is for breaches.

She told councillors that her experience was that reports of breaches seemed “to go into a black hole”, adding that some recipients of data which was not related to them were told “it happens” by the council’s customer service.

Cllr Chris Smith, chairman of the audit committee, replied: “I have been informed of this and it is due to the manual process of envelope stuffing.

“Changes can be made. I’m expecting a report to come through to tell me what will change and what will happen to ensure that this will not happen again.

“We look at the root cause. This data should not be going public and therefore we do want to get to the bottom of this to stop it happening.”

Officer Andrew Moulton met with Chris Wallace the week after the council meeting to discuss the breaches and the process of reporting leaked information.

This comes after The News reported that the council was forced to apologise to a Wokingham family after it twice sent confidential information about a survivor of sexual abuse to her attacker.

Wokingham Borough Council declined to comment further.