191 Million Voter Records Discovered Just Chilling Online

We ’ve see gravy holder loads of personal information dumps online in the last year , but none as freakish as this : A breakthrough of personal data from millions of Americans who ’ve voted since 2000 , see by a researcher and sit in a sloppily configured database . In other words , it was just hanging out on the web . For unknown reasons . And we have no idea who put it there .

Chris Vickery , an autonomous researcher and hacker , made the find and shared it with DataBreaches.net . He’sthe same guywho in the beginning this month discovered that a Hello Kitty database breach exposed over 3 million community exploiter ’ personal data , most likely including the selective information of children .

This mysterious voter database contains a mix of voter ’ personal and public information including headphone bit , home plate addresses , party affiliations , electronic mail address , full name , ethnicity , sexuality , and age . Luckily , though , Social Security number , driver ’s permit numbers and sensible fiscal information were not expose .

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This prison term , Vickery found his own info in the database , and reporters atForbes , CSO Online , andDataBreaches.netfound personal info of their own , too . No one ’s claimed the database , though . CSO reached out to political technical school firms like Catalist , Political Data , Aristotle , L2 Political , and NGP VAN , who all deny the database ( still online ) is theirs .

Voter records are public information , and individual state law ordinarily govern how data from a state ’s voter list may be used . For example , political cause can mine the tilt for targeted mailings .

In this odd case , it seems someone must have collected load of records from different places and then synthesized into one central database . That information is all public , but have it concentrated in one home could be an identity element thief ’s dream . Why ’d someone do this ? We may never live .

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