The Trinidad Guardian is reporting that Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is among more than a million Trinidadians who have had their personal information leaked on the internet.
Telecommunications Services of Trinidad & Tobago suffered a data breach which saw the data of customers being posted online.
Dr Rowley's identification card number, his driver's permit number and passport number have been found to be among those compromised in TSTT's data breach.
The 6 GigaByte of data from TSTT, which contains 1.2 million names, had been downloaded over 13,000 times from the dark web.
Public Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzales issued a press statement and mandated that the board of TSTT conduct an independent inquiry into the cyberattack at the company.
TSTT said some of the data had been accessed from a legacy system, which is no longer utilised but contains data that is, in many instances, no longer valid.
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