Just as Ecuador thought it had seen the back of leaks, over 20m citizen records are exposed

Just as Ecuador thought it had seen the back of leaks, over 20m citizen records are exposed

And Julian Assange is among them - but how old are these?


Records on more than 20 million individuals in Ecuador have leaked from an unsecured database in Miami, Florida, containing a mix of official citizen registration data and personal & banking details.


The data is reported to contain "a large amount of sensitive, personally identifiable information at the individual level", according to a research team at VPN comparison site vpnMentor, led by noted infosec bods Noam Rotem and Ran Locar.


Although the server appears to be owned by Ecuadorian consulting company Novaestrat, the leak is described as containing what look like Ecuadorian government entries, vehicle information from an automotive association and data relating to Ecuadorian national bank Bless (El Banco del Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social).


Rotem and Locar's team found they could look up a random 10-digit number to emulate an ..

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