198 data of millions of voters are publicly available.

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An analysis of the data of the contractor, whose services were used by the Republican National Committee (NRC) during the presidential campaign, left an online database with information about almost 200 to millions of potential voters open. This means that anyone who knew where to look could, without a password, download voter data, writes The Hill.

“We take full responsibility for this situation,” the contractor said. Deep Root Analyticsin a statement.

Databases were part of 25 terabytes files that were on the “cloud” in Amazonwhere viewing was possible without registration and passwords. They were noticed by researcher Chris Vickery from a security company. Upguard.

Vickery is a prominent researcher in uncovering improperly protected files on the Internet.

“In terms of disk space used, this is the largest exposure I've found,” Vickery said.

Available files according to Upguard, contain basic data (names, addresses and ID) 198 millions of voters that can be used with other available data to search for individuals.

For example, 50-gigabyte file Post Elect 2016 of the year contained simulated data on likely positions, ranging from "how likely is it that a person will vote for Obama in 2012," to "do they agree with Trump's foreign policy America First».

Deep Root Analytics placed in the cloud 25 a terabyte of data, including a 1,1 terabyte was available for download.

During the 2016 election season of the year, the Republican Committee contacted Deep Root Analytics for more data analysis.

Firms like Deep Root Analytics used data from various sources to extrapolate voters ’social and political preferences and determine how best to sell them.

According to Ad Age, nrc spent $ 983 thousand in the period from January 2015 of the year to November of 2016 of the year for services Deep Root Analytics.

Unusual in this case are the extent and size of this disclosure. If you believe the records, then Deep Root Analytics owns information about more than half of the American population.

Anyone who knew the address of the web files could access them. But without this knowledge they are much harder to find.

Deep Root Analytics signed a contract with a security company Stroz friedberg perform a thorough research.

Data access from 1 June to 14 June was closed. This happened shortly after Vickery made this discovery on the night of June 12 and notified the relevant regulatory authorities.

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