The data was sitting in an unsecured Amazon cloud server open to the public. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Private-Data-of-17M-Ecuadoreans-Leaked-in-Unsecured-Server-20190916-0006.html?fbclid=IwAR1KrFoPq60kSwfR9RBuYsnWc1mxP8tDkDmGE9cjlGQndvNryt9qJRD3OIc