Police investigate link between credit card cloning and Internet database

SANTIAGO.- The OS-9 Police are investigating whether the three suspects arrested this morning for performing illegal transactions with cloned credit cards obtained client records from personal information databases that included data on more than six million Chileans. The hacked information was discovered on the Internet early on Saturday morning. 

This was the indication given to EMOL by an internal source, who said that police are also investigating whether employees belonging to the company Johnson’s may be involved in the leak, since most of the seized credit cards possessed the department store’s logo, even though they may have contained information from other companies. 

The information leak, which was made public early Saturday morning, includes information such as people’s names, identification numbers, addresses, office and home telephone numbers and E-mail addresses, as well as academic and social information gained from the National Mobilization Association (DGMN), the Electoral Service (Servel), the Ministry of Education (Mineduc), the 2005 PSU website and telephone records.