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Personal data on every single Ecuadorian leaked online
Updated On: 18 September, 2019 07:39 AM IST | | Agencies
"The information that I can share with you at this moment is that this is a very delicate issue, it is a major concern for the whole of the government and the state," said Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo
Data on the president was also leaked. Representation pic/GettyImages
Quito: Almost the entire population of Ecuador had their personal data leaked online in a major security breach, officials and security experts said. Data on an estimated 20 million people, including almost seven million minors as well as deceased citizens, was exposed by the breach, the state attorney general's office said on Monday. The data was hosted on an unsecured server run by an Ecuadoran marketing and analytics firm.
"The information that I can share with you at this moment is that this is a very delicate issue, it is a major concern for the whole of the government and the state," said Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo. The South American nation has a population of 17 million, according to the UN Population Fund. Ecuadoran authorities said the data was allegedly from a server based in the United States. The security company vpnMentor uncovered the breach on the server run by the firm Novaestrat, which included citizens' full names, dates and places of birth, education levels, phone numbers and national identity card numbers.
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