Thousands of U.S. Voter Personal Records Leaked by Robocall Firm


The information was exposed on a public Amazon S3 bucket by a Virginia-based political campaign and robocalling company.

Researchers have discovered yet another misconfigured repository bucket – this time leaking the information of U.S. voters.

The information was exposed on a public Amazon S3 bucket by a Virginia-based political campaign and robocalling company called Robocent.

Kromtech Security researchers, who disclosed the bucket Wednesday, said the data was available for anybody on the internet searching for a “voters” keyword. Disturbingly, the Robocent data was found as a self-titled bucket indexed by GrayhatWarfare, a searchable database – where a current list of 48,623 open S3 buckets can be found, they said.

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Source: ThreatPost