Biggest leak of US voter information
In terms of sheer numbers, this is the biggest leak of US voter registration data. In December 2015, Chris Vickery, the same UpGuard researcher who discovered this leak, also found an unprotected MongoDB database exposing the details of
191,337,174 US voters.
Five months later, Vickery also found a similar unprotected MongoDB database that exposed the personal details of
93,424,710 Mexican voters.
Other voter databases exposed in the past two years include the ones belonging to the
Philippines (55 million) and
Turkey (50 million), both leaked online by hackers after breaching national voter systems.
The US has also been targeted by hackers who stole US voter registration information. In August 2016,
Yahoo News reported that Russian-based attackers stole voter databases from the states of Arizona and Illinois.
