The Republican National Committee gave $1 million to a company to target American voters and sway them to see life the Republican way during the past election.
The company collect info on nearly 200 million U.S. citizens.
Unfortunately, they stored all that data, including birth dates, contact info and addresses on a publicly accessible Amazon server... without even the simplest password protection.
Just think about it a second.
Without protection on a public server.
So, those "Russian hackers" didn't need to work very hard. They must have thought they were in seventh heaven.
Here's the story:
GOP-hired data company leaked information on 198 million citizens
"Data from the largely conservative Deep Root Analytics, a company that strategizes how to target audiences for political advertisements, was exposed this month. Information on nearly 200 million US citizens, over 60 percent of the population, was contained in the leak."
"Discovered by an analyst with the cybersecurity company UpGuard, the data was stored on a publicly accessible Amazon server. More than a terabyte of that data was not password protected. The data included citizens' contact information, addresses, birthdays, and analyses used to predict how they felt about controversial political topics like gun control and abortion."
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GOP-hired data company leaked information on 198 million citizens, Mallory Locklear, engadget.com, 19 June 2017.
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