154 million voter records exposed, including gun ownership, Facebook profiles & more: #Ethics #Profit #CyberCrime | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
From nakedsecurity.sophos.com - June 23, 2016 4:21 PM
A database with 154 million US voter registration records has been leaking information on a dizzying array of intimate details, including gun ownership, Facebook profiles, address, age, position on gay marriage, ethnicity, email addresses and whether a voter is “pro-life.”

MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery found the instance of a CouchDB database wide open, configured as it was for public access with no username, password, or other authentication required.

As Vickery said in a post, he tracked down and notified the company that was the source of the database. It was shut down within 3 hours.

On Tuesday, Vickery reached out to the company – a data brokerage firm named L2 – to report his theory: that one of its clients had purchased data from L2 and was hosting it in an insecure manner.

L2 said that yes, that was the case. He and L2 CEO Bruce Willsie tracked down the client, and the database was taken offline within 3 hours.

 

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