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Data was collated by Deep Root Analytics, which worked for the Republican National Committee last year
I didn't see anything about this before.
"The data, which came from a variety of sources, was collated by a data analytics firm called Deep Root Analytics. The company was hired by the Republican National Committee (RNC) in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election to provide insights on American voters and their feelings towards important campaign issues.
It included "names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details," plus best guesses at voter ethnicities and religious beliefs, according to the cybersecurity firm UpGuard, which discovered the exposed data, and detailed its investigation in a blog post on its website."
"That such an enormous national database could be created and hosted online, missing even the simplest of protections against the data being publicly accessible, is troubling," read the post, which called the discovery "perhaps the largest known exposure of voter information in history."
More than a terabyte of information was publicly accessible. The data was stored on an Amazon server that had not been properly secured, and also contained personal information collated by at least two additional companies, in addition to the information collected by Deep Root.
I can't believe this hasn't raised a shit storm in the WR. Funny, that.
I didn't see anything about this before.
"The data, which came from a variety of sources, was collated by a data analytics firm called Deep Root Analytics. The company was hired by the Republican National Committee (RNC) in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election to provide insights on American voters and their feelings towards important campaign issues.
It included "names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details," plus best guesses at voter ethnicities and religious beliefs, according to the cybersecurity firm UpGuard, which discovered the exposed data, and detailed its investigation in a blog post on its website."
"That such an enormous national database could be created and hosted online, missing even the simplest of protections against the data being publicly accessible, is troubling," read the post, which called the discovery "perhaps the largest known exposure of voter information in history."
More than a terabyte of information was publicly accessible. The data was stored on an Amazon server that had not been properly secured, and also contained personal information collated by at least two additional companies, in addition to the information collected by Deep Root.
I can't believe this hasn't raised a shit storm in the WR. Funny, that.
