Email Error Risked G20 Leaders’ Security

An email misfire compromised the security of world leaders’ passport numbers at the last Group of 20 summit, The Guardian reports. An employee of Australia’s immigration department allegedly sent sensitive personal information for President Obama and several other world leaders to the wrong people by mistake. The official didn’t double-check the “to” field in Microsoft Outlook, which had autofilled the wrong recipient and sent the private data to the organizers of the Asian Cup football tournament. “The personal information which has been breached is the name, date of birth, title, position nationality, passport number, visa grant number, and visa subclass held relating to 31 international leaders,” the department wrote in a letter to the country’s privacy commissioner, but it failed to report the issue to any of the leaders affected.