Researcher Chris Vickery, an Austin-based tech specialist, reported the misconfigured database with 191,337,174 Americans’ voter information to DataBreaches.net on December 20.
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“When one of their attorneys asked, ‘Well how much data are we talking about?’ and I read her the list of data fields and told her that we had access to voter records of over 17 million California voters, her response was ‘Wow, ‘ and she promptly forwarded the matter to the head of their e-crime division”, DataBreaches.net’s administrator wrote online.
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Nation Builder founder and CEO Jim Gilliam admitted in a statement for SecurityWeek that some of the data may come from their database because they provide free access to their data to some political campaigns and advocacy groups.
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“I needed to know if this was real, so I quickly located the Texas records and ran a search for my own name”. The officer, who viewed accurate information about himself in the Web server’s data, said he intentionally keeps his address and phone number off the Internet to protect himself and his family.
Vickery said he could not tell whether others had accessed the voter database, which took about a day to download. I was outraged at the result, ‘ Vickery told CSO Online.
He said that the leak is worse than a recent breach of voter data from Hillary Clinton’s campaign by a member of Bernie Sanders’ campaign, “because the data he discovered isn’t a client score – it’s a complete voter record for 191 million registered voters”. “The thought of some vindictive criminal being able to go to this site and get my address makes me uncomfortable”.
Any leak of genuine voter registration information could lead to repercussions for the organization or individual that lost control of the data. “Whether I vote Republican or Democratic should be my private business”.
Though voter data is for the most part public information, compiling a list containing the information of all American voters would be costly and time-consuming.
The FBI declined to comment. “We need serious referendum on the way private data is handled”.
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Some of the information found by Vickery appears to have been gathered from NationBuilder, but the software provider denied owning the database. But according to the NationBuilder community organizing system owned by CDNA Corp., the state of California mandates that its residents’ voting information “may not be made available to persons outside of the USA”, while South Dakota stipulates that its residents’ voter registration information “may not be placed on [the] Internet for unrestricted access”.
