By Stefanie Hoffman, ChannelWeb 7:42 PM EDT Mon. May. 12, 2008
An unidentified hacker posted personal information of more than six million Chileans on the Web after breaking into two popular government databases and stealing information, in what he claims was an effort to demonstrate the poor state of security in Chile.

The stolen data was located on sites run by the state-owned electoral agency, and Chile's Education Ministry.

Altogether, the hacker posted identifying data including names, telephone numbers, addresses, ID card numbers and academic records on two Web sites. The data appeared on IT site FayerWayer and community blog site ElAntro.com, a Chilean blog site dedicated to technology issues, according to the El Mercurio, the newspaper that first broke the news.
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Italians does not hold neither pioneer role or any monopoly in this area - lovely Finland keeps all records in this area. While data protection ombudsman is one of tightest in EU, the matter of tax being published is legalized for many years, and barely every envy person (just take every another person - Finland is concentrated envy) can go to ordinary kiosk and a long list of those, who had gone over certain income limit (and limit stays rather low). But last year scandal had blasted into legal muddle with EU involved - now one could order particular person's data via SMS, and EU is now pondering what to do about that, as internal legal system has failed to resolve conflict. More read in our beloved Hesari (local newspaper with English section) http://www.hs.fi/english/article/-/1135234369286