More Than 2 Million Mexicans' Personal Info Leaked in Second Online Data Dump Rafa Fernandez De Castro - Fusion
go to original May 25, 2016

The personal information of more than 2 million Mexicans was found online last week by the same man who recently discovered a previous data breach exposing the voting registration records of 93.4 million Mexicans.

Chris Vickery, an internet data-breach researcher for MacKeeper, told Fusion he found a new database with over 2 million entries through the search engine Shodan.io. He said he found the database through a “random search,” similar to the one that previously lead to his March discovery of an open Amazon server hosting addresses, names and other personal information for more than 70% of Mexico’s population.

Vickery said the new database was hosted on a server owned by U.S. company Digital Ocean, which offers online storage and transfer solutions to clients. Vickery says he again alerted Mexico’s electoral authority, INE, which launched an inquiry and confirmed that the voting registry for the northern state of Sinaloa had been exposed online.

The database was taken down by Digital Ocean last Friday. The company did not immediately respond to Fusion’s request for comment.

Mexican officials have launched an investigation into how the breach happened.

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Related: Eight in Ten Global Citizens Concerned Their Personal Information is Bought or Sold Online (Ipsos)

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