Privacy gaffe discovered in Internet address bids

Published June 15, 2012 6:14pm ET



NEW YORK (AP) — The organization in charge of introducing new Internet addresses to rival “.com” says it briefly suspended access to some documents on its website after a privacy gaffe.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says it had mistakenly published postal addresses of individuals making bids for the names — contact information that was meant to be private. The disclosure was limited to cities and countries in some cases, while full street addresses appeared in others.

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