Data leak at Abu Dhabi finance summit exposes global figures, FT reports


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Feb 17 (Reuters) - Former British ⁠Prime Minister David Cameron and hedge fund billionaire ⁠Alan Howard were among the hundreds whosepassports and ‌other identification papers were leaked online after they attended an Abu Dhabi conference,the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

The FT, citing documents, said scans ​of more than 700 passports and state ⁠identity cards were discovered ⁠on an unprotected cloud storage server associated with the Abu ⁠Dhabi ‌Finance Week (ADFW), a state-sponsored event that hosted more than 35,000 people in December.

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