Voting Machine Sold on eBay Contained 650,000 Unprotected Voter Records

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  1. hawki

    hawki Registered Member

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    "Hackers find over 650,000 US voter records on voting machine sold on eBay

    The voting machine reportedly contained sensitive and personal voter data of residents of Shelby County in Tennessee.

    A US government voting machine, which was reportedly sold on eBay was found to contain personal and sensitive data of over 650,000 US voters. The machine was reportedly purchased by white-hat hackers for use at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas. Although organisers believed that the voting machine, an ExpressPoll-5000, had been wiped clean of all data, the hackers instead found it contained sensitive data.

    The data on the machine was reportedly not encrypted or password-protected..."

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hackers-find-over-650000-us-voter-records-voting-machine-sold-ebay-1633262

    In other news: "Tennessee Secretary of State Nominated for 2017 Einstein Award..."
     
  2. RockLobster

    RockLobster Registered Member

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    I used to buy broken laptops on eBay, repair and resell them.
    One in particular had scores of sexual pictures and videos of a couple and all kinds of other personal info. Out of curiosity I looked them up on face book, sure enough they were the people in the pictures and videos.
    Lucky for them it was me who bought that laptop. I just wiped the hard drive.
     
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