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Hacker Publishes Personal Data Of 6 Million

Chile

Ah Chile. Beautiful landscapes. Great wines. And apparently, some jackass that thought it would be fun to publish the personal information for 6 million folks on the web.

From AFP via Yahoo News:

“Its a serious matter and we’re investigating,” Police Cibercrime Brigade chief Jaime Jara told the newspaper.

The data was displayed for several hours before authorities removed it on the technology information website “FayerWayer” and community website “ElAntro.”

The hacker said on the websites he splashed the data “for the whole world to see … (to) show how unprotected personal data is in Chile … nobody bothers protecting that information.”

Uh boy. This is not a good way to demonstrate a security hole. Sure it grabs the headlines but,…

Never mind.

I’m just going to sip my coffee.

Chilean in fact.

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