The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) inadvertently published 650 names and email addresses of cryptocurrency miners associated with blockchain firm Green as part of an investigation into the company, Cointepegraph writes.

“The Privacy Act of 1974 prohibits the arbitrary release of information about individuals that the federal government maintains in its filing system,” the SEC said on its website. – “If we store information about you in a system from which we retrieve it using a personal identifier, we will protect your information.

Cryptominer databases are now at risk because hackers often attack centralized cryptocurrency exchanges to obtain user information, but alleged inadvertent leaks by government officials are quite rare.