Chile: Hacker posts personal data of millions

Chilean police are investigating the hacking of personal information of over six million people on a tech website on Saturday. As mentioned today by Chilean daily El Mercurio the data published on the FayerWayer blog included names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mails, and identification numbers.

Meanwhile, a post on FayerWayer by the site’s administrator urged Chilean officials to concentrate on fixing the problem of private records being hacked:

Unfortunately, (the government) is misunderstanding the situation based on the words of (presidential spokesman Francisco) Vidal:

“I don’t know anything about computers much less that there’s such a thing as hacking…We have to catch mister hacker.”

No Mr. Vidal, the hacker only works to inform you of the vulnerabilities he found. The investigation that needs to be focus on how somebody could have access and publish the personal data of nearly half the population.

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Sources (English)- International Herald Tribune

Sources (Spanish)- FayerWayer, El Mercurio