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Hacker Exposes Confidential Files, Correspondence from Mexican Embassy in Guatemala

April 22, 2019

After expressing anger that his bug bounty efforts were completely ignored by Mexican officials, hackers stole and leaked online almost 5,000 confidential documents from the Mexican embassy in Guatemala, writes TechCrunch.

The data trove contained critical personal information of Mexican citizens and diplomats, including photocopies of passports, birth certificates, visas, payment cards and information about immunities, privileges, medical expenses and other operational data. Information pertaining to some Guatemalan citizens was also discovered. Some files were “official correspondence between countries that cannot be searched by police or customs.”

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