Security News > 2020 > October > Diplomats are supposed to be subtle and clever. Australia’s just leaked 1,000 citizens’ email addresses

Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has just exposed personal details of over 1,000 citizens in an email.

Australia has all-but-closed its borders during the COVID-19 pandemic, rationing the number of citizens who can fly into the country each day.

That policy means the few airlines still flying sell their business class seats and not many more, leading to people holding cheaper tickets being bumped off flights and big backlogs of citizens trying to get home to mostly-COVID-free Australia.

A little later DFAT sent another mail in which it said: "We request your assistance in immediately deleting that email from your IT system and refraining from any further forwarding of the email, to protect the privacy of the individuals concerned."

I'm least bothered about that 👍. One thing that's bothering me is your lies in the tweet saying you are working as hard as to get us back home.

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/dfat_email_leak/