Detailed information on more than 20 million people — most of them thought to be Ecuadorean nationals — was found on an unsecured server in Miami, providing identity thieves and scammers a treasure trove.
The internet security firm vpnMentor said it discovered the cache of information during a routine scan of the internet and that the data breach had been closed last Wednesday.
While the scale of the leak wasn’t massive by global standards (Yahoo.com exposed information on more than5 billion people in 2013) it was huge for Ecuador. The South American nation has a population of about 16 million, meaning that virtually everyone in the country was potentially compromised.
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