Share on Twitter The Australian government has been ordered to pay compensation to asylum seekers whose details were exposed in a massive data breach seven years ago. The Information Commissioner has determined the Department of Home Affairs interfered with the privacy of 9,251 detainees in immigration detention by mistakenly releasing their personal information. The privacy breach relates to the unauthorised release of a detention report on the department's website in 2014. Then Immigration Minister Scott Morrison called the incident "unacceptable", saying the information was "never intended" to be in the public domain. READ MORE Australia's privacy regulator found the report contained embedded personal details that could identify all asylum seekers held in mainland detention and on Christmas Island.