A Virginia-based political campaign and robocalling company Robocent left hundreds of thousands of voter records on a public, exposed and unprotected Amazon S3 bucket. This year has already seen a lineup of attempted attacks on local elections and campaigns, but this news comes less than a week after the indictment of 12 Russian officials for meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.. According to an 18 July blog post by Bob Diachenko, head of communications at Kromtech Security, Robocent’s self-titled bucket was reportedly "indexed by GrayhatWarfare, a searchable database where a current list of 48,623 open S3 buckets can be found. Repository contained both audio files, with pre-recorded political messages for robocalls dials (*.mp3, *.wav), and voter data (*.csv, *.xls files)." The link for this article located at InfoSecurity is no longer available. . Virginia electoral campaign information leaked due to a misconfigured S3 bucket, jeopardizing the privacy of numerous voter profiles.. Robocent Data Breach,Voter Record Exposure,S3 Bucket Risk,Virginia Election Security. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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