Voter Data on the Dark Web
January 2, 2019
Sixgill, an Israeli company, says that voter data are for sale on the Dark Web. “Who Controls Your Vote? Sixgill Sheds Some Light on the Dark Web” states:
Sixgill, the cybersecurity leader which analyzes the Dark Web to detect and defuse cyber attacks, discovered that the U.S. voter database tracing back to the 2008 Vermont election was being offered for sale on a top-tier forum on the Dark Web.
The article reports:
Sixgill gained access to the breached database of the most recent elections and noted that the information enclosed seemed to be authentic. Among the list of credentials are those of Vermont Senators Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders. The Dark Web investigator noted that the stolen credentials contain 476,560 records, numbers that align with recent official data published by Vermont’s Secretary of State. For each individual record in the database, one can see sensitive personal information belonging to individual voters, including their full name, legal and mailing addresses, year of birth, and even their past voting history.
The BestTechie article did not suggest ways to protect these data nor remediation methods.
Kenny Toth, January 2, 2018
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