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35 Million Voter Records For Sale on Popular Hacking Forum

posted by mrpg on Wednesday October 17 2018, @07:59AM   Printer-friendly
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RandomFactor writes:

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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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by VLM on Wednesday October 17 2018, @11:59AM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 17 2018, @11:59AM (#749924)

    Who cares? If someone cares, then they are a buster.

    Its acceptable behavior now-a-days to hit someone with a bike lock trying to kill them, and not get punished if you're on the "correct" political side. Vandalism and street crime is cherished by some.

    We're not too far from gunfire in the streets. And the backlash from leftist violence will eventually resemble kyrstalnacht or whatever the German pronunciation.

    So walking around wearing a yellow star of david or whatever the right wing version is (wearing new balance sneakers and making the "OK" symbol? simply not visually being a degenerate?) are both inadvisable for non-wanna-be-martyrs on both sides.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday October 17 2018, @05:54PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday October 17 2018, @05:54PM (#750052) Journal

    We're not too far from gunfire in the streets.

    We're well past that point. It's just the rightwingers doing the shooting, though, so you ignore it.