RNC contractor exposed millions of voter data

I wonder if the Republicans are going to scream for an investigation on this. This is completely inexcusable on the part of the contractor. This data can be nefariously used against any voter, and it most certainly exposes negligence on the contractor. This is proprietary info, personal info, and if RWers are true to their word, they will want this resolved properly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-days-researcher-says/?utm_term=.376e177e570c



The Switch
A Republican contractor’s database of nearly every voter was left exposed on the Internet for 12 days, researcher says



By Brian Fung, Craig Timberg and Matea Gold June 19 at 2:42 PMLoaded in 1.85 seconds
A Republican analytics firm's database of nearly every registered American voter was left vulnerable to theft on a public server for 12 days this month, according to a cybersecurity researcher who found and downloaded the trove of data.

The lapse in security was striking for putting at risk the identities, voting histories and views of voters across the political spectrum, with data drawn from a wide range of sources including social media, public government records and proprietary polling by political groups.

 

I'm not concerned about the stuff gathered from social media, public records or polling. What I am concerned about is what private info they might have exposed. Another thing I'm stunned with is the total amount of data they gathered, 1,000 gigs.

Yeah, someone needs to get spanked over this.

 

Someone was asleep at the wheel....

 

Must be fake news, or as Trump would frame it, "it's a hoax".

 

They haven't gotten spanked from the 2016 election yet. Why do you think there's been an investigation?

 

This should be interesting.

 

How about this, what do you say about asking Madam Secretary what we should do to people who potentially expose private or even confidential data?

 

In a statement, Deep Root blamed the lapse in security on a settings change, and said it had hired an outside firm to conduct an independent investigation. “We accept full responsibility, will continue with our investigation, and based on the information we have gathered thus far, we do not believe that our systems have been hacked,” Deep Root said.

Lundry said the data, which included proprietary information as well as publicly available voter data provided by state government officials, has been secure since new protocols were put into place on June 14. The exposure began on June 1, when Deep Roots Analytics adopted updates that accidentally stripped away the password protections on the files.

“The RNC has halted any further work with the company pending the conclusion of their investigation into security procedures,” the RNC said in a statement. “While Deep Root has confirmed the information accessed did not contain any proprietary RNC information, the RNC takes the security of voter information very seriously and we require vendors to do the same.”

Amazon Web Services declined to comment about the security problem.


Much ado about not much, it appears, so far.

 

Why would Trump etal be "spanked" for the Obama Mighty 17 Intell Services failure?

 

The election was hacked while Obama was president all while the democrats were saying a hack was not possible therefore any and all hacks are Trump's fault.

 

Ah...leftlogic...nothing like it....

 

I wouldn't be surprised if it comes out that it was ordinary hackers who accessed the DNC files, and that intelligence used this 'Russian rouse' to cover their own asses. **Gasp** Government lying to cover its ass? When has that happened before? The flopped web site launch is one very recent memory lol.

 

Hopefully he has already been fired for incompetence unless of course you subscribe to the principle you have to have shown intent to expose sensitive data................do you?

 

This is far from nothing, this is a major info leak.

 

I agree, this needs review!!

 

Well, don't you agree this needs investigation? Doesn't the contractor and the RNC have an obligation to secure this data?

 

Steps already taken. No, we don't need another democrat dog nd pony show, especially after their giving a complete pass on Hillary having MILITARY CLASSIFIED DATA on an unprotected server....

 

I agree that Hilary Clinton should have her clearance revoked, any Joe would have theirs revoked, but I also wouldn't stop there, Kushner, for lying on his clearance, would have his revoked, if he weren't part of Trump's team. This is my point, that the ones in power and with money are treated with kid gloves than anyone else.

 

No, this needs to be investigated as they all do.

 

It is already being investigated. Read the article.

 

Fair enough!!!

 

So investigate. It seems to me that your reaction to this is decidedly different than when it was discovered that not only did Hillary keep highly sensitive information on her own server, but she emailed it to people without the requisite clearance.

It seems as though your standards are doubled.

 

1. No evidence the data was accessed by unauthorized sources, which says next to nothing. If a serious actor found this, there would be no record of it.

2. The RNC has cut ties with the contractor, at least until the investigation is over.

3. I'm more disturbed over the amount of data being compiled on everyone than I am over 1 leak, no matter how serious the leak is. Simple reasoning, if one organization can legally compile that info, so can others.

 

You realize it is mostly public information, the same other polling companies and political parties use.

 

Seems that is why we know about it, it was investigated. Hopefully the guy has been fired IMO even though there is no evidence he intended to expose any information. Do you think he should be fired or even charged with a crime, I don't know what crime, if he didn't intend to expose any information?