The Washington Free Beacon reported today that the right-wing, Washington, D.C.–based Conservative Partnership Institute “has for months left exposed the sensitive personal information of applicants to its online ‘jobs bank'” — including information related to the “intelligence community, congressional aides, former Trump administration officials, and campaign operatives.”

Read the whole piece here. Especially this bit:

The Free Beacon sent a note to [Ed] Corrigan on Thursday morning apprising him of the problem and of our intention to write a story on the matter, but not until we received confirmation the compromised files had been taken down. A public relations spokesman for CPI, Bobby Donachie of Athos PR, responded to the note with a phone call raising questions about whether any of the files were publicly accessible and proceeded to hang up. The files were removed shortly thereafter, and a spokesman for CPI said “we have resolved the situation.”

Ouch.