Dutch budget pops up online – 24 hours early

Dutch student Bram Talman has shot to fame in 24 hours after he unearthed the government's 2012 budget a day before it was due to be published, and broke the news about next year's economic forecasts.
This year's budget was due to be presented on Friday Sep. 16, but on Thursday afternoon, Talman discovered it had already been posted online and started tweeting the news, with pictures of the cover to prove its authenticity.
"Every year there is a huge struggle between the different media companies to get the budget first, so I started searching and found the budget site from last year, which had 2010 in the website," said Talman, 29. "I simply replaced 2010 with 2011, and there it was, the Dutch budget."
Since then, he has become a minor celebrity. Journalists crowded into the cafe where he had set up camp on Thursday evening, and he was inundated with telephone calls, interview requests, and free drinks.
"Today, my life is mostly back to normal, well, except for the 200 missed calls, countless email messages and the fact that now people recognise me on the train."
Finance ministry spokesman Remco Dolstra said the company that tested the site where the budget is usually posted "made a mistake and rather than placing a fake record, it placed the real one, and of course this shouldn't have happened."
Dutch IT company Facetbase, which specialises in putting company reports online for clients including Dutch lender Rabobank and staffing firm Randstad , said it was a case of human error.
Through crisis management spokesman Peter van der Maat, Facetbase said it regretted leaking the budget and will take all necessary measures to avoid such a mistake in future.
It's the second tech embarrassment in the Netherlands recently. A couple of weeks ago, the Dutch government was forced to investigate whether security for some of its websites was breached by hackers who stole certificates from the Dutch IT firm Diginotar, part of U.S.-listed VASCO Data Security International .