Massive data leak on 198,000,000 registered US voters.

[wtfzerg]

OH sweetheart, you're adorable. Last time I checked my voter registration/record in my state it had who I voted for in every Presidential election since 2000...

Provide proof and drop the condescending horseshit.

[I Push Buttons]

I would need to proof of it having how people voted because there is zero way to harvest that information without standing over voters in polling booths. DOB is public record.

Its a probability based on all of the other data.

EDIT:
So party affiliations, the voting results of the district/county/city/town you are registered to vote in, etc.

[Cyberowl]

Just seriously what is the worse that can happen to you because someone knows who you voted for?

At least you keep proving his point about your mental capabilities.

Every campaign manager just creamed their pants.

[Masark]

So can we make the modest request of having a government issued ID when people vote? Are there any other western nations that allow people to vote by simply showing a paper copy of a utility bill that can be manufactured in 2 minutes on MS Word?

1. As soon as you permit the modest request of delivering said IDs to everyone free of charge, including not charging for any supporting documents required for said IDs.

2. Canada, where we don't allow a party to engage in mass voter suppression.

[ImpTaimer]

UpGuard is a very new startup company as young as 2 years, and very much a business and not a bastion of justice. Also conveniently located in California.

They loosely describe how they "came across" the data and how they are able to access Amazon's cloud servers (in which they self-link an article discussing how Amazon cloud servers are "insecure"). So basically they were hired to attack Amazon servers and "came across" a server with voter data then proceeded to copy the data for themselves and only then notify the feds. God forbid Amazon is at fault for this due to their cloud service structure, but lets push the political agenda instead and say "sorry" later.

It's easy for a "security company" to claim someone else's data is insecure as a kind of self-promotion. Kinda like how Comey's brother's security firm (and co-funded by Google), Crowdstrike, was lavishly praised by Comey. You know, the ones that investigated Hillary's emails and refused to allow FBI to obtain the servers and examine them.

Ultimately the only "historic" value in this discovery is that cloud-based computing is inherently insecure.

Some people say the Cold War never ended. They're probably right, except it was never about the Russians.

[Mormolyce]

I wonder if it's still available for download somewhere...

"Unsecured" - LOL who the fuck do these people hire to do their IT security. What a fucking clown show, on both sides of the fence.

You'd be amazed how easy it is for something like this to happen in a big organisation. Data multiplies like rabbits.

[Edge-]

UpGuard is a very new startup company as young as 2 years, and very much a business and not a bastion of justice. Also conveniently located in California.

They loosely describe how they "came across" the data and how they are able to access Amazon's cloud servers (in which they self-link an article discussing how Amazon cloud servers are "insecure"). So basically they were hired to attack Amazon servers and "came across" a server with voter data then proceeded to copy the data for themselves and only then notify the feds. God forbid Amazon is at fault for this due to their cloud service structure, but lets push the political agenda instead and say "sorry" later.

It's easy for a "security company" to claim someone else's data is insecure as a kind of self-promotion. Kinda like how Comey's brother's security firm (and co-funded by Google), Crowdstrike, was lavishly praised by Comey. You know, the ones that investigated Hillary's emails and refused to allow FBI to obtain the servers and examine them.

Ultimately the only "historic" value in this discovery is that cloud-based computing is inherently insecure.

Some people say the Cold War never ended. They're probably right, except it was never about the Russians.

What site did you pull up this version of reality on?

[ImpTaimer]

I wonder if it's still available for download somewhere...



You'd be amazed how easy it is for something like this to happen in a big organisation. Data multiplies like rabbits.

You'd also be amazed how many security firms create outrageous stories to promote themselves, going as far to create fake leaks.

Nobody short of UpGuard or Deep Root Analytics could have readily accessed the storage servers, meaning no actual leak happened.

Also, while slightly irrelevant to the core issue, the data contained in the storage is technically available because none of it is actually sensitive / private data.

UpGuard is the only one claiming the data was insecure and "leaked". So be skeptical.

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What site did you pull up this version of reality on?

Duckduckgo. Please try to be less illiterate.

[Mackeyser]

I call bullshit.

It happened in 2012, also. And it's not just restricted to Reps.

https://thinkprogress.org/billionair...s-37ee4d37c296

http://truthfeed.com/ceo-of-grubhub-...-resign/35046/

Is what it is. /shrug

[wowaccounttom]

So data that could have been found by opening a phone book and then googling them?

someone needs to arrest this madman... he is telling people how to hack stuffz

[Mittens]

Spreadsheets containing this accumulated data—last updated around the January 2017 presidential inauguration—constitute a treasure trove of political data and modeled preferences used by the Trump campaign. This data was also exposed in the misconfigured database and had been for an unknown period of time.

Why? Databases are a thing.

[ImpTaimer]

Kinda surprising how the current Reddit post on this subject has actual rational people being rated up in it discussing more detail of the process over frothing libtards. Then again you can always just sort by controversial for that kind of fun.

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/commen...er_records_is/

[d33jay]

"Hey guys, we found a good amount of compiled public data that was analyzed and now here it is!"

Doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

[Kaleredar]

So you're telling me they were using unsecured internet servers for data storage?



Will the republicans be frothing at the mouth claiming that they, themselves, aren't fit for governance?

[Bodakane]

It happened in 2012, also. And it's not just restricted to Reps.

https://thinkprogress.org/billionair...s-37ee4d37c296

http://truthfeed.com/ceo-of-grubhub-...-resign/35046/

Is what it is. /shrug

The difference being that one side did just win an election based on the other using unsecured servers.

[Orange Joe]

So data that could have been found by opening a phone book and then googling them?

Don't know about you, but the best you will find on me is my age. None of my other personal data is on the net.

[Raptor With a Saber]

Don't know about you, but the best you will find on me is my age. None of my other personal data is on the net.

Ohhhhh trust me it is

[Orange Joe]

Ohhhhh trust me it is

Ill pm you my name, see what you come up with

[Allybeboba]

but her emails

BOOM!! And there it is

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So is this why the RNC is so adamant that they weren't hacked to the point that they were bragging about it? Because they were just leaving all the information publicly available without any "hacking" necessary? : P

Holy shit though, what a truly impressive, incredible, and scary fuckup.

Might as well leave the keys in your car with the doors open and the car running. And when the police come tell them it was stolen but it didn't get broken into.

[Pratt]

Can you imagine the epic ****storm if Hillary's camp had done this?!