RoboCent, a company that specializes in robocalling voters, left nearly 3,000 files containing detailed data about Virginia voters online by mistake. The data was stored in an unsecured Amazon S3 storage bucket that did not require authentication. RoboCent has since secured the data. The leak wouldn’t have been an issue if the data had been encrypted, says Pravin Kothari, CEO of CipherCloud, which specializes in cloud security. It’s questionable whether RoboCent’s data on U.S. voters actually increases the risk of identity theft or other mischief.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/robocalling-firm-leaves-virginia-voter-data-online-a-11223