Federal emergency officials inadvertently released personal information of more than 2 million disaster victims in what a government watchdog called a “major privacy incident,” according to a recent report.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s inspector general said officials accidentally released personal information to a contractor. The information included Social Security numbers and banking information of about 2.3 million survivors of hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma, as well as the California wildfires in 2017,…