Numbers help!

I've just found out that a completely password protected excel file opened in numbers loses all of the protection and displays previously hidden sensitive data. When I click to open the excel file on my iPad it won't open it but gives me the option to open it in numbers which it then proceeds to imports the excel spreadsheet. Please can someone help? How can we stop all of the protected hidden sheets from being displayed?

Surely numbers shouldn't convert protected excel files into spreadsheets where everything is visible to people that shouldn't be able to see it?
If the workbook is protected in Excel, Numbers cannot open it unless the recipient enters the correct password.
Once the password is entered everything becomes visible and can be edited by the recipient.
That's just the way it is, so far. If you've got information anywhere in a workbook that you need to keep confidential, then don't give anyone the password to that workbook!
You may have noticed that in Numbers you can password protect a document. You can also lock a table to help prevent it from being changed by mistake (though the user can simply unlock it in the menu). But you can't lock specific cells or a sheet.
SG

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