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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
from the Privacy-is-obsolete dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @11:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @11:54PM (#750223)

    Is 40% statistically significantly less than 60%? How many attacks are included in this count, we can use the poisson distribution to determine the importance of this info.