{"id":129222,"date":"2021-10-19T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T04:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/hacker-steals-government-id-database-for-argentinas-entire-population"},"modified":"2021-10-19T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T04:22:21","slug":"hacker-steals-government-id-database-for-argentinas-entire-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/hacker-steals-government-id-database-for-argentinas-entire-population","title":{"rendered":"Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina\u2019s entire population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacker-steals-government-id-database-for-argentinas-entire-population.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A hacker has breached the Argentinian government\u2019s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country\u2019s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles.<\/p>\n<p>The hack, which took place last month, targeted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argentina.gob.ar\/interior\/renaper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>RENAPER<\/strong><\/a>, which stands for Registro Nacional de las Personas, translated as <strong>National Registry of Persons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is a crucial cog inside the Argentinian Interior Ministry, where it is tasked with issuing national ID cards to all citizens, data that it also stores in digital format as a database accessible to other government agencies, acting as a backbone for most government queries for citizen\u2019s personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker has breached the Argentinian government\u2019s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country\u2019s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles. The hack, which took place last month, targeted RENAPER, which stands for Registro Nacional de las Personas, translated as National Registry of Persons. The agency is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}