Australians inadvertently disclosed private data global leaders who participated in the G20 summit in early November. Passport data of Obama and Merkel were erroneously sent to the instigators of the Asian Cup football.
Australian authorities have published their own data global favourites. A misunderstanding happened on 7 November 2014 because of the employee of the Department of immigration. He inadvertently sent the numbers of passports, visas and other private data of all global favorites, participated in the summit of "Big twenty", the instigators of the Asian Cup football championship, which was held from 9 to 31 January 2015 in Australia.
According to the newspaper The Guardian, the oversight has led to the fact that personal information 31 inhabitant of our planet, even the President of the United States, Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of England David Cameron, President XI Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo, and even the Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Narendra modi, was where she was supposed to be.
According to some, a mistake was made in the result of carelessness: an employee of the Ministry just didn't check that you entered the correct address in your email program. In this regard, proponents of the Asian Cup football received a secret information that includes the names of world leaders, their dates of birth, passport and visa information.
As the letter was delivered to the recipient, the head of visa services Department contacted the Australian high Commissioner and informed him about the incident. He insisted that the recipient false messages deleted this e-mail and folder emptied the secret file.
After the mistake was corrected, the Australian authorities stressed that it is unlikely that the data get in the open access. At the same time, we know that the Australian immigration Department has not informed the world leaders about the leak data.
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