Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile Data Breach

What happened

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.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.