154 million voter records exposed, revealing gun ownership, Facebook profiles, and more | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Security researcher Chris Vickery came across an online database, hosted on a Google Cloud server, containing 154 million US voter records.

It emerged that the poorly-secured database belonged to an unnamed client of data brokerage firm L2. The client has blamed hackers for leaving the database accessible from the outside world, without even the simplest password.

 

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