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Home | AMERICA | Nearly 200 Million American Voting Records Exposed Online

Nearly 200 Million American Voting Records Exposed Online

June 19, 2017 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Collection of nearly 200 million voter registration files that can be used to identify American voters

A massive collection of nearly 200 million voter registration files that can be used to identify American voters have been discovered online on an unsecure server, ZDNet reported Monday. The 198 million records were found on an Amazon storage server owned by Republican data analytics firm Deep Root Analytics. Contained in the records is personal information…

WASHINGTON — A Virginia data firm working for the Republican National Committee left voting records of 198 million Americans exposed on the internet and accessible to anyone, a California cybersecurity firm said Monday. The data firm not only left exposed the vast national database but also precise and painstaking projections for most voters of their projected…

WASHINGTON — To any nefarious hackers looking for data that could be used to sway elections or steal Americans’ identities, the file compiled by a GOP digital firm called Deep Root Analytics offered all manner of possibilities. There in one place was detailed personal information about almost every voter in America. It was a collection of…

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Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Internet and Democracy, Spying and Privacy, Voting Technology

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