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Old 06-19-2017, 11:13 AM   #5282
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RNC left the personal information for basically every voter in the US exposed on the Internet for 12 days, don't know if anyone downloaded it. One would think Amazon has log files that would indicate if someone downloaded it.

A Republican National Committee database of nearly every registered American voter was left vulnerable to theft on a public server for 12 days this month, according to a cybersecurity researcher who found and downloaded the trove of data.

The lapse in security was striking for putting at risk the identities, voting histories and views of voters across the political spectrum, with data drawn from a wide range of sources including social media, public government records and proprietary polling by political groups.

Chris Vickery, a risk analyst at cybersecurity firm UpGuard, said he found a spreadsheet of nearly 200 million Americans on a server run by Amazon's cloud hosting business that was left without a password or any other protection. Anyone with Internet access who found the server could also have downloaded the entire file.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...searcher-says/
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