US voters

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2017
19 Million California Voter records held for ransom attack on a MongoDB instance

Voter registration data for more than 19 million California residents stored in an unsecured MongoDB instance has been deleted and held for ransom. Voter registration data for more than 19 million California residents that was stored in an unsecured MongoDB database has been deleted and held for ransom by attackers. The incident was discovered by researchers at […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016
Hacker is offering for sale a complete US Voters archive

Colleagues at HackRead discovered a seller using the pseudonym of ‘DataDirect’ offering US voters’ registration records on a black marketplace. On the Dark Web is quite easy to find any kind of data, recent data breaches have literally flooded the principal black markets. Recently, colleagues at HackRead discovered a seller using the pseudonym of ‘DataDirect’ […]