Personal data of 191M Americans leaked online

[FreakinDJ]

Personal data of 191M Americans leaked online

A faulty database has exposed the personal information of about 80 percent of American adults, according to reports from data security publications Monday.

Citing revelations by researcher Chris Vickery, the website DataBreaches.net reported that almost 70 fields of information for more than 191 million American voters were public online.

The information did not include Social Security or driver license numbers, but did include home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and voting histories.


The administrator of DataBreaches, known by the internet pseudonym Dissent, said in an interview that she teamed with Vickery and digital security blogger Steve Ragan to investigate who built and published the database, but came up empty after a weeks-long effort.

http://www.sfgate.com/national/article/Reports-personal-data-of-191M-Americans-leaked-6723711.php

[Jim__]

1. Voting histories?

Presumably that means something like when you voted, and not who you voted for. Or, maybe they're storing more information than I was aware of.