Database?

Maybe the database wasn't even hacked? An insider could have done it.
If it was hacked, clearly it was not a difficult task.

Well, I guess I’m glad I didn't spend $1 million USD worth of Bitcoin to get their citizenship.

The one who wrote the article is ignorant. You don’t need to store photos for a facial recognition database. Use feature ratios if you do it the old way or use an onnx file if you are using a neural network. We know three things. First, it’s amateur hour down there (this is a given regardless). Second, based on the data described, they grabbed an ID database that has little to do with facial recognition and the one who wrote the article is writing nonsense. Third, this has little to do directly with facial recognition (though the photos could have been used for such).

donbass said:

But how could they have stolen such info but only about some or certain people then?

The article says they got over 5 million records. That’s hardly “certain people”.

Paratore said:

it’s amateur hour down there (this is a given regardless).

the day after I gave my data to the Paraguay immigration office I started receiving spam on the phone and email. Clearly, they sell your data. Not surprising, and El Salvador is certainly no different.

donbass said:

But if hackers wanted to steal only some peoples info, how could they?

The same way they stole everyone’s data, most likely.

Same thing happened during COVID-19 in some EU countries (vax database which could be exported by minimum wage employees),

Way easier than stealing 1btc

Rick said:

Same thing happened during COVID-19 in some EU countries (vax database which could be exported by minimum wage employees),

Or Coinbase user information by third world low level tech support.