1 jun 2017 año - 198 Million US Voter Records Exposed

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http://www.zdnet.com/article/security-lapse-exposes-198-million-united-states-voter-records/

Unfortunately, it's not uncommon to hear that a trove of voter data was breached or exposed somewhere in the world. But on June 19, researcher Chris Vickery announced a discovery that would give even the most jaded security expert pause. He had discovered a publicly accessible database that contained personal information for 198 million US voters—possibly every American voter going back more than 10 years.

The conservative data firm Deep Root Analytics hosted the database on an Amazon S3 server. The group had misconfigured it, though, such that some data on the server was protected, but more than a terabyte of voter information was publicly accessible to anyone on the web. Misconfiguration isn't a malicious hack in itself, but it is a critical and all-too-common cybersecurity risk for both institutions and individuals. In this case, Deep Root Analytics said that the voter data, though publicly exposed, was not accessed by anyone besides Vickery—but it's always possible that someone else discovered it, too. And though a lot of voter information is readily available anyway (names, addresses, etc.), Deep Root Analytics specializes in compiling revealing data, so being able to access so much pre-aggregated information would be a boon to a cyber criminal.

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