Hacker leaks 6m Chileans' records
news.bbc.co.uk
A computer hacker in Chile has published confidential records belonging to six million people on the internet, officials say.
The information was obtained by hacking into government and military servers, and was posted on a technology blog.
It included ID card numbers, addresses, telephone numbers and academic records.
The hacker left a message saying the aim was to demonstrate the poor level of data protection in Chile, says the newspaper which uncovered the story.
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