Hundreds of thousands of voter records found exposed on misconfigured server: report
Yet another misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket has exposed the sensitive information of unsuspecting people. This time, hundreds of thousands of voters’ information was left open for the taking by a Virginia robocalling firm called Robocent, according to Bob Diachenko, a security researcher at cybersecurity firm Kromtech. Diachenko wrote in a LinkedIn blog post Wednesday that he discovered a trove of about 26,000 files, including audio files with pre-recorded political messages and spreadsheets containing voter information, in the leaky server. The voter data, according to Diachenko, includes names, phone numbers, addresses, political affiliations, birth dates, genders, jurisdictions and some demographic information. The Robocent files were accessible to anyone who did a specialized web search for “voters,” said Diachenko. By the time it was identified by Kromtech, the server had already been indexed by GrayhatWarfare, another website that scans the internet for open S3 buckets. Diachenko says he disclosed the finding to Robocent […]
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