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Maya Yang

Ice inadvertently posted personal information of 6,252 people in custody

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Washington, DC.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Washington DC. Photograph: Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Wednesday that it had inadvertently posted to its website the personal information of more than 6,000 people in its custody.

The information included names, nationalities, detention centers where the people were held and unique numbers used to identify them in government records, according to Human Rights First, an advocacy group that discovered the leak on Monday.

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