The following article by Brian Fung, Craig Timberg and Matea Gold was posted on the Washington Post website June 19, 2017:
A Republican analytics firm’s database of nearly every registered American voter was left vulnerable to theft on a public server for 12 days this month, according to a cybersecurity researcher who found and downloaded the trove of data.
The lapse in security was striking for putting at risk the identities, voting histories and views of voters across the political spectrum, with data drawn from a wide range of sources including social media, public government records and proprietary polling by political groups. Continue reading “A Republican contractor’s database of nearly every voter was left exposed on the Internet for 12 days, researcher says”