giraldi02 470 Posted June 19, 2017 https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files In what is the largest known data exposure of its kind, UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that a misconfigured database containing the sensitive personal details of over 198 million American voters was left exposed to the internet by a firm working on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in their efforts to elect Donald Trump. The data, which was stored in a publicly accessible cloud server owned by Republican data firm Deep Root Analytics, included 1.1 terabytes of entirely unsecured personal information compiled by DRA and at least two other Republican contractors, TargetPoint Consulting, Inc. and Data Trust. In total, the personal information of potentially near all of America’s 200 million registered voters was exposed, including names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details, as well as data described as “modeled” voter ethnicities and religions. Seriously...do Democrats or Republicans understand a focking thing about digital security? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mobb_deep 917 Posted June 19, 2017 Whether you're working in Oracle or MSSQL, every half decent DBA knows about Transparent Data Encryption and Symmetric Encryption respectively. And that's not even getting into encrypting during transport. This is just basic security to protect stored data. Just wow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 12,624 Posted June 19, 2017 Seems like a lot of incompetent people work in the tech world Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rholio 339 Posted June 19, 2017 Seems like a lot of incompetent people work in politics. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
