200 Million US Citizens Have Personal Information Exposed
The largest breach of electoral data in the US has taken place with voters information being leaked. Sensitive information of almost 200 million US citizens has been exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee. The data was available publicly via an Amazon cloud server which revealed the information of nearly 62% of the US population. Among the 1.1 terabytes of information were birthdays, home addresses, telephone numbers, and political views.