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erronis

(15,303 posts)
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 03:23 PM Jun 2017

Repuglicans store voter info in public cloud.... It's hard to find good talent! [View all]

Especially anyone who will work for them. Perhaps some inbred relatives...


In what is the largest known data exposure of its kind, UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that a misconfigured database containing the sensitive personal details of over 198 million American voters was left exposed to the internet by a firm working on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in their efforts to elect Donald Trump. The data, which was stored in a publicly accessible cloud server owned by Republican data firm Deep Root Analytics, included 1.1 terabytes of entirely unsecured personal information compiled by DRA and at least two other Republican contractors, TargetPoint Consulting, Inc. and Data Trust. In total, the personal information of potentially near all of America’s 200 million registered voters was exposed, including names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details, as well as data described as “modeled” voter ethnicities and

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files
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