Immigration agency leaks data on more than 6,000 detainees

WASHINGTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday that personal information of more than 6,000 people in its custody was inadvertently posted to its website for about five hours. 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. ICE said it was telling detainees or their attorneys of the leak.