New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority has revealed confidential documents from complainants were mistakenly made publicly available in a recent privacy breach.The regulator has contacted some people who sent in complaints through its online system between 2015 and 2017, to notify them that their information may have accessed through internet searches, after a preliminary review of its systems found 27 instances where evidence provided to the FMA through an online form was "inadvertently uploaded to a portal on the FMA website". Six of those cases contained sensitive information that was not meant to be publicly available, including financial information. The FMA was notified of the breach on 21 October and immediately shut down its website, restoring it two days later.