Police 'stole sensitive data of 31 million Colombians' .
Police 'stole sensitive data of 31 million Colombians' .
Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:12 Joey O'Gorman
Colombian police have stolen private information of 31 million Colombians, said electoral authorities Tuesday
National Registry director Anthony Cotrino Sossa lodged a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office that "high impact" information including biographical, residential and fingerprint details of citizens, along with information pertaining to membership of the armed forces and police, was removed from the Registry without the appropriate warrant.
According to the election official, two officers arrived at the Registrar on Thursday with a warrant to copy information related to an investigation into alleged election irregularities in the southwest Cauca department.
However, the policemen removed two hard-drives containing the personal information of 31 million voters from the Registry Offices to the Cyber Police Division and did not return the disks until Monday morning.
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