Department of parliamentary services(DPS) have confirmed that personal mobile numbers of several federal politicians, their staff, and former prime ministers have mistakenly been published online.
The DPS, after every six months, publish the details of each politician and some former prime ministers on the spending of their mobile phones and internet which only includes their names and the amount of their bill with other information redacted.
However, the latest information released in January 2016 contains the mobile phone numbers of several MPs, senators, and many ministers.
Some of the lucky officials were those whose numbers were not exposed in the report that includes, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Treasurer Scott Morrison, Attorney-General George Brandis and a few others.
