Info on 1.8M Chicago voters was publicly accessible, but now removed from cloud service
Source: Chicago Tribune
A file containing the names, addresses, dates of birth and other information about Chicago's 1.8 million registered voters was published online and publicly accessible for an unknown period of time, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said Thursday.
The acknowledgment came days after a data security researcher alerted officials to the existence of the unsecured files. The researcher found the files while conducting a search of items uploaded to Amazon Web Services, a cloud system that allows users to rent storage space and share files with certain people or the general public. The files had been uploaded by Election Systems & Software, a contractor that helps maintain Chicago's electronic poll books.
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-chicago-voter-data-cloud-met-0818-20170817-story.html
Why are we snoozing on this issue? What have we not learned since 2000? This needs to STOP and our voting system must be safe and secure! 2018 mid-terms are fast approaching and we still have security breaches in our voting system. This is undermining the integrity of every vote.
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I'm one of them.
