Democratic Senate campaign group exposed 6.2 million Americans’ emails

guest · Aug 6, 2019

Democratic Senate campaign group exposed 6.2 million Americans’ emails
August 6, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/06/democratic-senate-millions-emails/

A political campaign group working to elect Democratic senators left on an exposed server a spreadsheet containing the email addresses of 6.2 million Americans.

Data breach researchers at security firm UpGuard found the data in late July, and traced the storage bucket back to a former staffer at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, an organization that seeks grassroots donations and contributions to help elect Democratic candidates to the U.S. Senate.
The researchers shared their findings exclusively with TechCrunch and published their findings.

Despite several follow-ups, the spokesperson declined to say how the email addresses were collected, where the information came from, what the email addresses were used for, how long the bucket was exposed, or if the committee knew if anyone else accessed or obtained the data.
Most of the email addresses were from consumer providers, like AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail, but the researchers found more than 7,700 U.S. government email addresses and 3,400 U.S. military email addresses, said the UpGuard researchers.
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Political History: How A Democratic Organization Leaked Six Million Email Addresses

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The Longevity of Data
The most obvious interpretation of the evidence here is that this file was uploaded in 2010, meaning it has been publicly available for almost a decade. Whether it was accessed by any parties other than UpGuard is not knowable with the information we have available.
Conclusion
The digitization of every sphere of life has created a myriad of consequences that are just now coming to light. Healthcare, finance, and politics are among the major convergences of personal data being collected and used every day.

Organizations should treat their data with the same respect they give to the success it allows them to achieve.
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