Unsecured Amazon server leaks details of 198 million American voters

Personal data and profiling information about millions of American voters has been exposed in what is believed to be the largest ever leak of its kind. 198 million records were found stored on an unsecured Amazon S3 server owned by Deep Root Analytics, a Republican data analytics firm. It is thought that the data, which dates back more than a decade, includes information about every registered American voter. The open server was discovered by UpGuard Cyber Risk Analyst Chris Vickery, but disclosure of the availability of the data was delayed until the server had been made secure. The amount of… [Continue Reading]