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Republican Data Broker Exposes 198M Voter Records

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Jun

2017

Detailed voter profiles of 198 million voters were left exposed on an Amazon S3 account by Republican Party-affiliated data broker Deep Root Analytics. The discovery was made by Chris Vickery, cyber risk analyst at security firm UpGuard. “This was one of the most data rich datasets I’ve ever found,” Vickery told Threatpost.

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RNC Voter Data on 198 Million Americans Exposed in the Cloud

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Jun

2017

One of the largest known US voter data leaks compromised personal information via an unsecured public-storage cloud account set up on behalf of the Republican National Committee. Millions of voter records containing personal information and “modeled” voter information like religion and race were leaked from an unsecured public storage cloud account owned by Deep Root Analytics.

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Why Nimses isn’t safe (so far)

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Jun

2017

Nimses is a new social app that was developed in Ukraine and is now trending in Russian-speaking app stores. Why should I be interested in yet another social network, you may ask. Well, the idea behind this one is quite catchy: In Nimses, users can monetize the time they spend in the app.

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