More than one thousand Australians stranded overseas have had their personal email addresses shared with strangers.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade shared the emails by mistake.
"We apologise for unintentionally disclosing email addresses of stranded Australians we're trying to help get home. No other personal information was disclosed," the department said in a statement on Thursday.
"We want to get you home, and are working as hard as we can to do so."
At least 26,800 Australians overseas are waiting to come home.
The weekly limit on returning travellers is set to increase to 5500 this month.
