Ice inadvertently posted personal information of 6,252 people in custody

Worry after agency spreadsheet was erroneously posted online while performing routine updates' and was up for about five hours

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Wednesday that it had inadvertently posted to its website the personal information of more than 6,000 people in its custody.

The information included names, nationalities, detention centers where the people were held and unique numbers used to identify them in government records, according to Human Rights First, an advocacy group that discovered the leak on Monday.