It’s not only the UK government having ‘problems’.

It looks like the governments of other countries are experiencing issues with data protection, in this case: Chile. A hacker managed steal personal information relating to 6 million people and post the data onto a technology blog. Details included: ID numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, emails and academic records. A report suggests that the theft was designed to highlight the poor security of Chilean government systems (or maybe the hacker was just having fun!).

The announcemnet prompted Graham Cluely, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, to state;”Chile may be on the other side of the world, but the scale of this data breach should not be ignored,”. “No matter how moral or ethical the motive, this prank was irresponsible and has left almost 40 per cent of Chile’s population at risk of identity theft.”

I wonder who’s next?

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