Over half a million addresses collected by New South Wales (NSW) as part of its COVID-19 safety program were leaked last year, according to data obtained by 9News. The 566,318 addresses included the details of businesses, organisations, and government departments who were registering as COVIDSafe with the NSW Department of Customer Service. Less than one percent of those addresses—around 428—were considered sensitive, according to the department, including the location of a defence site, missile maintenance unit, domestic violence shelters, prisons, and critical infrastructure like power stations and tunnel sites. The dataset was discovered on a government website by a technology specialist, Skeeve Stevens in September 2021 who alerted cyber experts, who in turn, told the NSW government. “If the wrong people got hold of this it could’ve been used for bad things,” Stevens said in comments obtained by 9News. “Some of the scary things we were searching—firearms, armoury, federal police, …