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Approximately 35 Million voter registration records from 20 states have appeared for sale online. These records include Full Name, Phone, Address, Voting History and 'other' data. There have been other larger leaks and breaches of voter registration records in the past (for example, in 2015 191 Million were found to be freely accessible online)
Details including the affected states are available here: https://www.anomali.com/blog/estimated-35-million-voter-records-for-sale-on-popular-hacking-forum
Why is our voting history retained beyond the current election? This is especially worrisome if you vote in the wrong primaries in an area that has a prevailing opinion that differs sharply from your own.
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35 Million Voter Records For Sale on Popular Hacking Forum
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by shrewdsheep on Wednesday October 17 2018, @09:40AM (5 children)
The statement about "voting history" is most likely false. Probably they mean "registration" history (not from the US either).
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @02:20PM
At least here, it is a flag: 0 not registered, 1 registered, 2 registered and voted. It doesn't show whom you voted for, but it can show how old you are, when you moved to the area, and how politically interested you are. But your date of birth and party affiliation is already included elsewhere in the record.
(Score: 3, Informative) by requerdanos on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:00PM (3 children)
The voter's "History" indicates whether the voter voted in a given election. In the U.S. voter registration records, which include demographic information, disclosed party affiliation if any, and, yes, "voting history", are public records. You can order them on magnetic or optical media as well as on paper, and search them online.
For example, here's my state's online search form: https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/ [ncsbe.gov]
If you don't know someone in North Carolina to look up, you could search for Governor Roy A. Cooper, born in 1957.
There's a section in the results for "Voter History" (31 results for Gov. Cooper) that is what's being oohed and aahed over--for elections the person voted in, you can see HOW THEY VOTED!!!11!! (absentee or in-person), what county they voted in, even what "party" whatever that means.
If you want to download, not just search, the state board of elections has you covered: https://dl.ncsbe.gov/index.html?prefix=data/ [ncsbe.gov]
If someone puts all this on a "hacking forum", that makes them a salesman, not a hacker.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Fluffeh on Wednesday October 17 2018, @09:04PM (2 children)
*picks jaw up off the ground*
Wow. And people have no problem with this sort of information being online for ANYONE to comb through?
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday October 17 2018, @11:50PM
I have mixed feelings about it. The salient point here is that some hacker or hacker forum didn't suddenly make available something that's been available all along.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 18 2018, @04:29AM
... for those who are concerned about stalkers, one has to visit a certain web page.
But by default one's registration info is all public record.
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