A hacker who identified himself as “Anonymous Coward” stole personal info of 6 million Chileans — reportedly including a daughter of the president — and posted it briefly on the Web, authorities said Sunday.

“This is a serious and fragile issue,” said presidential spokesman Francisco Vidal.

Police Chief Jaime Jara confirmed that authorities were investigating the theft of the leaked goods, which he said included identity card numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mails and academic background.

The input was taken early Friday from servers at the Education Ministry, the electoral service and the military, Jara said. It was not clear when it arised on the Net, but it was first reported to police early Saturday by Leo Prieto, the administrator of a local technology-oriented Net site who discovered urls to the data online.

It did not immediately seem that any banking or financial input had been compromised, and the data had been removed

by Saturday dawn, Jara said.

The incident was first reported Sunday by the daily newspaper El Mercurio.

Among the notes was a list of students who receive preferential public transportation rates, including one of President Michelle Bachelet’s two daughters, Prieto told Santiago’s Radio Cooperativa.

The transportation passes include a photo and the name of the students’ schools, but do not contain any other sensitive data.

Despite the information’s immediate removal from the Web, some society may have downloaded it “and it may still be around on the World Wide Web,” Prieto said.

El Mercurio reported that it had access to some of the goods, including a file in which the hacker said he intended “to demonstrate how poorly protected the goods in Chile is, and how nobody works to protect it.”

The paper said the hacker identified himself as “Anonymous Coward.”

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