Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile 2024 Data Breach

Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile 2024 Data Breach

Government / Government

Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile 2024 Data Breach

A government service in the government sector.

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
38/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
Standard
Exposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
320KRecords
2024Year

The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.

Classification Tags
Cloud MisconfigurationGovernmentCitizen2024

Breach Summary

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.

Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.

10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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320K records analyzed

About Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile

Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile is a government service in the government sector.

Why They Hold Your Data

Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile is a government service in the government sector. Services like this typically hold dates of birth, email addresses, names, gender, passwords, usernames through account registration and normal operations.

Recent Developments

The Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.

Data Points Exposed

6 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
Gender
Password High
Username

Breach Impact

The exposure of credentials alongside personal data heightened account-takeover and reuse risk for Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile users and drew scrutiny of its data protection.

Exploitation & Downstream Threats

• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses

Principal Risk Advisory

What this means for a principal

A government-linked breach: official identifiers and citizen records support identity fraud and credible authority-impersonation. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.

What You Should Do

  1. Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
  2. Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.

How ObscureIQ Can Help

  1. Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
  2. Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
  3. ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).

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