A database containing data on people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Ecuador was put up for sale on a hacker forum, Alfredo Velazco of the organization Digital Users revealed.

“The sale of the @Salud_Ec Ecuador COVID19 database is being denounced in a hacker forum, it would contain data such as name, identification number, date of birth and vaccination. A similar base has been ceded to supermarket chains by the current government,” he wrote on Twitter.

The Falcon Feedsio account announced that the appearance of this information was for sale through the user kelvinsecurity, who already has a history of data breaches in other countries such as Colombia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, among others.

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The description of the post on the forum mentions that there are 1,000 to 70,000 files and that they contain information about:

The hacker clarified that it concerns information about patients who were vaccinated between 2021 and 2023 and that there are millions of records. “In summary, we could be talking about the entire vaccinated Ecuadorian population,” he says in the post.

The Ministry of Health has not yet made a statement about this data breach.