Passports, drivers’ licences and birth certificate details have been exposed to fraudsters after a serious Government digital privacy breach.
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage says 302 young people supplied their details to it as part of an application for the Tuia 250 Voyage trainee programme.
These were uploaded to an external website which was then compromised, exposing their details.
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