US RoboCent Jul 2018 Technical Error (Q15467)
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A data breach risk event
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A data breach risk event |
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July 2018
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RoboCent, a Virginia Beach-based political robocall firm, has exposed the personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters, according to the findings of a security researcher who stumbled upon the companys database online. The researcher, Bob Diachenko of Kromtech Security, says he discovered the data using a recently launched online service called GrayhatWarfare that allows users to search publicly exposed Amazon Web Services data storage buckets. Such buckets should never be left exposed to public access, as they could hold sensitive data. Diachenko found RoboCents exposed AWS bucket by searching for the term voters. He searched for this particular term because last year, he also found a gigantic MongoDB database exposing the voter records of over 19 million Californians. (English)
