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Robocall Firm Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of US Voters' Records (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: RoboCent, a Virginia Beach-based political robocall firm, has exposed the personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters, according to the findings of a security researcher who stumbled upon the company's database online. The researcher, Bob Diachenko of Kromtech Security, says he discovered the data using a recently launched online service called GrayhatWarfare that allows users to search publicly exposed Amazon Web Services data storage buckets. Such buckets should never be left exposed to public access, as they could hold sensitive data.
What the fuuuuuuoooookay. Not their voting record, just their "Personal details". IE, whatever they've told these robocallers.
It's phone-book stuff plus party and demographics. meh. I mean, it's a leak, and you know, shame on a lazy corporation and all that. But this isn't real groundbreaking. If you donate to a political candidate, that's public knowledge anyway.
Most, if not every state provides very low cost voter records for a very small fee. They'll just send you a DVD with all the voters addresses, names, age, and voting records. It fits in a few gigabytes of zip.
There's several websites where you can lookup someones voting record online, per state. Some states only allow the information to be used for political purposes, but that's incredibly broadly defined, and mostly just to stop people putting up stalker websites.
Before anyone overreacts.
The voting records provided display that you showed up at the polling place or voted an absentee ballot. Not the actual votes cast.