Recently, Indonesia's leader Prabowo Subianto believed he was a private conversation with American leader Donald Trump at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.
Instead, a live microphone situation captured Prabowo asking Trump to organize a meeting with his son Eric, who serve as executives at the family business.
This was just one in a series of gaffes made by international figures when they assume no one can hear them.
Below are several additional noteworthy blunders:
Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life
During a defense ceremony in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were recorded talking about organ transplants as a approach for prolonging life.
"Human organs can be repeatedly transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and it's possible to even achieve immortality," Putin's interpreter was heard saying.
Xi, who was off camera, answered in Chinese: "Some predict that in the current era people may reach 150 years old."
A conversation heard between China's leader Xi Jinping and Moscow's head Vladimir Putin
'Sea Rising at Your Door'
Former Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he made light about the plight of residents in the Pacific experiencing rising sea levels.
Dutton was speaking to former PM Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from environmental talks with regional heads in Port Moresby.
Observing how a meeting about refugees was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott responded: "We had a bit of that up in Port Moresby."
Dutton commented: "Time doesn't mean anything when you're about to have the ocean reaching your home."
The comments sparked outrage from regional nations and environmentalists, while the opposition Labor party demanded Dutton to issue an apology.
Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about coastal flooding
'Prejudiced Voter'
As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was on the trail in 2010, he encountered a constituent who questioned him on immigration and the economic situation.
Still wired up to a Sky news microphone when he got into his vehicle, Brown was heard saying: "That went terribly – they should never have put me with that woman. Who thought of that? Absurd."
Asked what she had said, he replied: "All topics, she was just a prejudiced person."
This incident dominated headlines for an extended period and Brown went on to lose the political race.
'I Can't Stand Netanyahu. He's a Liar.'
Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in discussion at the G20 summit in Cannes in 2011 with France's leader Nicolas Sarkozy when their comments about Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu were captured by a active recording device.
Sarkozy stated: "I cannot bear Netanyahu. He deceives."
According to a account from a translator cited by Reuters, Obama responded: "You've had enough but I must work with him frequently than you."
'Major League ***hole'
A vintage recording incident from then US presidential candidate George W. Bush happened as he made a disparaging remark about a reporter from The New York Times.
The Republican presidential nominee was unaware that a recording device was active when he turned to Dick Cheney at a political event and said, "There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times."
Cheney answered: "Oh yeah, he is, definitely."
Bush at a political gathering in 2000
