Alleged Breach of Chile's Ley del Lobby Platform Exposes 250GB of Government Lobbying Records Spanning 2018 to 2026
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Incident Overview
A threat actor going by NyxarGroup claims to be selling 250GB of data from Chile's Ley del Lobby platform, the government transparency portal that records and monitors lobbying activities carried out by individuals, companies, and organizations in relation to public decisions. The platform is designed to make transparent the influences that interest groups exert on legislative and administrative processes throughout the country.
The dataset allegedly spans from 2018 to 2026 and contains detailed records of lobbying hearings with the following fields:
- Hearing Records: Hearing record identifiers, folio numbers, dates of receipt, and recipients of applications.
- Institutional Data: Institution names, positions held, official titles, and individualization of applicants.
- Personal Identifiers: Full names, RUT numbers (Chile's national identification), passport numbers, and issuing country.
- Contact Information: Means of contact, quality designations, and names of represented parties.
- Meeting Details: Specific matters to be addressed, specifications of matters, attendees at each hearing, additional information, details of the meeting itself, modality (in-person or virtual), place, commune, date, and time.
The actor notes that the sample data includes hearings scheduled for the coming month, as well as meetings involving senior government and military officials including General Officers, Directors of Intelligence, Chiefs of Development Divisions, Directors of Public Safety, Directors of Naval Systems Engineering, and Chiefs of Field Telecommunications of the Logistics Command. The compressed file is 3GB and the uncompressed dataset is 253GB. The listing is priced at $2,000 with contact via PM or SimpleX messaging.
