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The Financial Conduct Authority FCA in the United Kingdom accidentally exposed sensitive information of approximately 1600 individuals who had made complaints against the regulator. The breach occurred when the FCA published a response to a Freedom of Information request on its website but failed to properly redact background data within the document. Leaked details included names and addresses of complainants along with some descriptions of their grievances. The FCA promptly removed the document and launched an internal investigation to identify the technical and procedural failures that led to this privacy incident.