GT Mexican Consulate Services 2019 Hacking (Q9489)
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A data breach risk event
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GT Mexican Consulate Services 2019 Hacking
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A data breach risk event
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January 2019
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Thousands of documents containing sensitive information belonging to Mexicos embassy in Guatemala were leaked online this week by a hacker. The stolen cache contained more than 4,800 files related to the embassys activities including its dealings with personal documents belonging to Mexican citizens. The hacker, identified on Twitter as @0x55Taylor, published the data online after the embassy failed to reply to his attempts at making contact. The files were eventually pulled offline by the cloud storage company used to host them, but TechCrunch was able to confirm the authenticity of the documents. (English)
