Czech EU presidency apologises for sensitive data leak

The Czech EU presidency has apologized for a leak of ‘sensitive’ data on politicians who attended the recent EU-US summit in Prague. In a statement on its website, the presidency admitted that a publicly accessible computer in a Prague hotel displayed information on officials taking part in the summit, which took place on April 5. The cause of the leak was ‘unintentional human error’, the presidency said, adding that it ‘regretted that this situation had happened’. A Finnish tourist stumbled across politicians’ passport numbers, flight details and medical information on a public access computer, the Finnish news agency STT reported on Friday. The Czech EU presidency responded that the necessary ‘personnel policy measures’ would be taken as a result of the leak.