Private information like postal addresses, telephone and passport numbers and email addresses of thousands of Spanish residents in Sweden have been revealed. The Spanish embassy in the country distributed "by mistake" a 690-page document containing the personal details.
This slip follows the other setbacks of recent weeks for Spain's Foreign minister, Alfonso Dastis. In international media, he has tried to minimise the police violence during the 1st October independence referendum and even said that, in Catalan public schools, students cannot study Spanish (link in Catalan).
According to Spanish newspaper ElDiario.es (link in Spanish), Spanish residents in Sweden have received an email from the embassy with an attached document headed "Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. General Consulate of Spain in Stockholm", which includes the personal details of their fellow residents.
The email, which was meant to spread a survey about the creation of ALCE (Association of Spanish Language and Culture) classrooms, is reported to have included all these details. The embassy recognised the mistake and sent a follow-up email admitting the previous one was sent "by error" and asking them to erase it: "Dear residents, due to a mistake in the previous message, the correct one is re-sent [here]. We ask that you destroy the previous message."
The embassy has told this paper that it recognises sending "the database used to carry out the mailing". According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs themselves, 5,248 Spaniards are registered as living in Stockholm alone.