14 DAY TRIAL // A group of Chilean hacktivists that go by the name of Chilean Hackers have broken into the database of CONADI and stolen the personal details of 304,189 Chilean citizens looking for state benefits from the country's government.
CONADI stands for Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena (Spanish for National Indigenous Development Corporation) and is an official institution, part of the Chilean government, under the Ministry of Social Development.
CONADI was founded in 1993 as part of a social campaign to support the development of the local indigenous population by providing state aid, easier access to education, subsidies for land purchases, and so on.
To get access to these benefits, all indigenous people must register with CONADI and receive a certificate that proves they're part of the indigenous population.
Hackers asked Chile's President to resign
As the hackers told Softpedia, they carried out the hack as a protest against the government, just to show how easy it is to breach their servers, and that they should put more effort into protecting the personal details of the local indigenous population.
The hackers breached the CONADI website, stole its database, uploaded it online, and then posted a link to the entire data on one of CONADI's subdomains, along with a message for the country's President Michelle Chanchelet, urging her to resign.
Additionally, the group doesn't believe CONADI really helps indigenous people. "Equality does not exist in people with Indian ancestry, that is, there are Indians with more privileges than others," one of the hackers told Softpedia. "Poor indigenous [people] are classified as 'terrorists,' but people who are in CONADI, no."
The hack went unnoticed for about two days
After the hack took place and the hackers posted the data online, this defacement page remained online for another two days, before being taken down after news of the incident reached the Chilean press.
The leaked data was a zipped Excel file that held details on 304,189 Chilean citizens that applied for an indigenous certificate from CONADI.
The data included details such as names, addresses, and RUT IDs (Rol Único Tributario, the Chilean taxation unique contributor roll identification number).
Earlier today, the Chilean Hackers crew also took part in another operation that targeted the email servers of the Bolivian Army.
