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In what is being billed as one of the largest data leaks recorded in the United States, an analytics firm contracted by the Republican National Committee (RNC) was found to have exposed the personal details and political biases of nearly 200 million Americans. According to Chris Vickery, a risk analyst for cybersecurity firm UpGuard, the information was left exposed on the internet due to a “misconfigured database” using Amazon Web Services for server storage. The firm responsible for this serious lapse in security was Deep Root Analytics. Over 1.1 terabytes of data was made publicly available via the internet for twelve whole days (it wasn’t password protected). During that time, anyone could...
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