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154 million American voters’ records exposed thanks to unsecured database

A misconfigured CouchDB instance exposed 154 million U.S. voters records. The leaky database was on Google Cloud Platform and traced it back to a client of L2, a company that claims to be the countrys most trusted source for enhanced voter data. The database included fields for addresses, age, congressional as well as state senate districts, education, estimated income, ethnic, name, gender, languages, marital status, phone number, voting frequency, presence of children, and if the voter was a gun owner.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3088133/154-million-american-voters-records-exposed-thanks-to-unsecured-database.html

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