You walk past a ministry office and notice that there is nobody at the door checking people entering, you walk in, you find an office door open, many binders on the shelves, nobody present. You read through the binders, pull out the drawers and see private info etc. You then walk out and send a mail about this. What do you think is going to happen?

I think it's more like there's a binder lying in the street outside the ministry office and you pick it up and see that it has private info.