"wrong recipient" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to an incorrect or inappropriate person or entity who receives a message, letter, or package. Example: I apologize for the inconvenience, but it seems that your package was delivered to the wrong recipient. We will arrange for it to be picked up and delivered to the correct address as soon as possible.
Probably no one has ever received a "blast" on a cellphone like the kinds sent in "Gossip Girl," and while plenty of us have accidentally sent an e-mail to the wrong recipient, it probably has never been as mind-bogglingly disastrous as MacKenzie McHale's workplacewide gaffe on "The Newsroom".
Computer systems can be hacked; computer equipment containing thousands of records can be stolen or misplaced; e-mail can be sent to the wrong recipient; employees can view charts that they should not be accessing with little chance of being detected; and many other electronic mishaps can occur.
Enter: CheckRecipient, a London startup that uses machine learning to help prevent emails from being sent to the wrong recipient.
Therefore, it is a matter of concern if information such as account details have been incorrectly provided to the wrong recipient.
That means protected files cannot be accidentally emailed to the wrong recipient, leaked by a hacker or eavesdropping systems administrator, or copied to a USB drive.
Rhondda Cynon Taf council self-reported one breach to the ICO about disclosing personal information through email by accident and Torfaen council had one breach which was an email with personal information sent to the wrong recipient.
These include using a misleading or meaningless subject ("Re: Re: Re:"); addressing the e-mail to the wrong recipients, or too many of them; putting somebody in the "To" list who should be a "Cc" or vice versa; and misusing the sneaky "Bcc" and "Forward" commands, which can easily cause a confidential message to become very public indeed.
The biggest penalty was a £140,000 charge imposed on Midlothian Council after it repeatedly disclosed personal data about children and their carers to the wrong recipients.
Last month a botched code push accidentally revealed private user email addresses, and before that Facebook accidentally sent private messages to the wrong recipients.
Of course, double-checking the displayed message before hitting "Send" will prevent any messages from being sent to the wrong recipients.
The cases of information disclosure can refer to a range of ways unauthorized people see Fed information, from hacking attacks to Fed emails sent to the wrong recipients, according to two former Fed cybersecurity staffers who spoke on condition of anonymity.
