Passports and other identity documents belonging to hundreds of attendees of Abu Dhabi’s flagship investment conference have been exposed online, compromising the security of high-profile individuals from international finance, politics and crypto.
Scans of more than 700 passports and state identity cards were discovered on an unprotected cloud storage server associated with Abu Dhabi Finance Week, a state-sponsored event that hosted more than 35,000 attendees in December.
Among those whose identity documents were exposed were Lord David Cameron, the former British prime minister; Alan Howard, the billionaire hedge fund manager; and Anthony Scaramucci, the US investor, podcaster and former White House communications director, according to documents reviewed by the FT.