US voter database mysteriously made public
Not clear if data disclosed inadvertently or from hacks, but release raises questions of privacy and security
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A DATABASE containing personal information from 191 million voter records was mysteriously published over the last week, the latest example of personal voter data becoming freely available, alarming privacy experts who say the information can be used for phishing attacks, identity theft and extortion.
No one knows who built the database, or where all the data came from, and whether its disclosure resulted from an inadvertent release or from hacks. The disclosure was discovered by an information technology specialist, Chris Vickery, who quickly alerted the authorities and published his findings on Databreaches.net.
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