Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile data breach: 319K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-09-16
In September 2024, the Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile (Chile's National Sports Institute) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.7M rows of data with 320k unique email addresses alongside names, dates of birth, genders and bcrypt password hashes. The newest records in the data date back to August 2022, suggesting the breach may be of an older data set. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 12, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 16, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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