Chilean Hacking

Sometimes, I think it's better to leave the kids play on the computer various games, even silly ones like Counter Strike or Lineage (it's my opinion, so don't kill me!), instead of guiding them into learning something useful. I know it doesn't sound like a serious way of thinking, but I would rather have a computer games addict than a hacker as my kid! Anyway, today it's about someone who managed to break the Chilean government sites and grab a lot of data, a person which still remains unknown...


The hacker, who calls himself "Anonymous Coward," reported on a Chilean tech blog that he managed to get his hands on no less than 6 million confidential data sets corresponding to the same number of Chileans. To imagine as far this has gone, it's enough to say that one of those having the personal data revealed is one of President Michelle Bachelet’s two daughters!

Despite the fact that the original posting on the Fayerwayer.com site was promptly deleted, a lot of other blogs got the news and carried it on. According to PC World, the Anonymous Coward said "If you’re going to extract data from a server, it’s recommended to make a script that doesn’t connect directly to the server, but rather via [anonymous proxies]," and continued with a direct reference to the president's daughter:"Bachelet’s daughter has a school pass, although it’s not given to many people because their parents have earnings above a certain threshold."

As we speak, the investigation continues, and 6 million people should be afraid of having their names, phone numbers, addresses and identity card numbers turned into public domain information...