Authorities are investigating the theft of the leaked data, which includes identity card numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, emails and academic records.

Information about the president's daughters was reportedly included in the leaked data.

The information was obtained by the surreptitious hacker from government, military and Ministry of Education servers and posted on FayerWayer, a Chilean technology blog.

The site's administrator contacted authorities and the data was quickly removed. However, police believe that some people may have downloaded it and it could still be available on the internet.

According to the El Mercurio newspaper, which had access to the files, the hacker said he intended "to demonstrate how poorly protected the data in Chile is, and how nobody works to protect it".

It did not appear that any banking or financial data had been compromised.

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