Although vital information such as Social Security numbers and driver’s license ID numbers were thankfully not revealed, this unprecedented data leak puts millions of Americans at risk. With information they could gather from the database, criminals can now find ways to contact or otherwise harass people who were unfortunate to have their private information leaked.
“Vickery said he could not tell whether others had accessed the voter database, which took about a day to download.
He contacted DataBreaches.net last Sunday to report that he had uncovered the database with 191,337,174 million Americans’ voter information exposed as a result of the incorrectly configured database.
‘Thankfully, there are no Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, or any financial information in this particular database, but full name, date of birth, and address and phone number with political party and other fields – are problematic enough when it comes to protecting our privacy and security,’ the Databreaches.net report said.
While voter data is typically considered public information, it would be time-consuming and expensive to gather a database of all American voters.
A trove of all U.S. voter data could be valuable to criminals looking for lists of large numbers of targets for a variety of fraud schemes.
The alarming part is that the information is so concentrated,’ Vickery said.
Vickery said he has not been able to identify who controls the database, but that he is working with U.S. federal authorities to find the owner so they can remove it from public view. He declined to identify the agencies.
A representative with the Federal Bureau of Investigation declined to comment on the matter.
A representative with the U.S. Federal Elections Commission, which regulates campaign financing, said the agency does not have jurisdiction over protecting voter records.
CSO Online said the exposed information may have originally come from campaign software provider NationBuilder because the leak included data codes similar to those used by that firm.
In a statement, NationBuilder Chief Executive Officer Jim Gilliam said the database was not created by the Los Angeles-based company, but that some of its information may have come from data it freely supplies to political campaigns.”
Source: Daily Mail
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