1.8 million Chicago voter records exposed online [View all]

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Source: cnn tech

Election Systems & Software (ES&S), the Nebraska-based voting software and election management company, confirmed the leak on Thursday.
In a blog post, the company said the voter data leak contained names, addresses, birthdates, partial social security numbers and some driver's license and state ID numbers stored in backup files on a server. Authorities alerted ES&S to the leak on Aug. 12, and the data was secured.
A security researcher from UpGuard discovered the breach.

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/17/technology/business/chicago-voter-records-exposed-upguard/index.html

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gee. es&s. i am sooooo shocked.
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