By Justin Hendry on Jan 27, 2021 12:45PM Almost 1300 individuals to receive payment. The Department of Home Affairs has been ordered to compensate almost 1300 asylum seekers for inadvertently publishing their personal information online in 2014. It comes six years after the then Department of Immigration and Border Protection was originally found to have breached the Privacy Act over the data leak that impacted a total of 9250 individuals. The breach occurred when the department accidentally made public a database containing the personal information of all individuals held on Christmas Island and in a mainland detention facility. Information, including full names, nationalities, dates of birth, gender and boat arrivals, was accessible for eight days on the department's website and a further seven days on Archive.com before it was removed.