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The personal data of most Ecuadorian citizens are available online.
VN Mentor, a computer security company, has found names, financial information and civic data concerning 17 million Ecuadorians, including 6.7 million children.
This huge amount of data was available on one of Amazon's cloud storage servers, in a way that everyone could see.
Access to this insecure server is now limited by Ecuador's computer emergency response team.
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"The pirated data contains huge amounts of sensitive personal information from which individuals can be identified," wrote Noam Rotem and Ran Locar of VNB Mentor.
As well as basic data such as: official government identity card numbers, phone numbers, family records, wedding dates, training records and employment records.
Data included financial records of client accounts of a major bank in Ecuador. In another file, tax records containing the official corporate income figures were found.
A computer security researcher at the company said, "This data breach is dangerous, given the individual information disclosed."
The researchers warned that they had found 18 gigabytes of data in several files on an insecure server launched by Novaestrat, an Ecuadorian marketing and data analysis company.
Until now, Novaestrat has not responded to a request for comment from the BBC.
The news of the data breach was published on ZDNet, and the journalist, Catalan Simpano, said the data was "as valuable as gold in the hands of criminal gangs".
Simpano noted that a simple data search allows to access lists of wealthy Ecuadorians, addresses of their homes and determine if they have children, cars and numbers.
"But now, access to data is restricted, and the computer emergency response team has alerted," Simpano said.
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