https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/17/republican_tea_party_fund_security_blunder/
By Chris Williams
Editor in Chief
The Register
17 Oct 2018
Now, now, America. Don't go overboard. Again.
More than half a million folks' names and phone numbers, plus other
sensitive files, were accidentally spilled onto the internet by a
misconfigured server operated by the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, it
is claimed.
That fund is a Republican super PAC that campaigned in the 2016
presidential elections, backed Alabama’s Roy Moore and New Jersey’s Jay
Webber, and supported other rightwing activities. As a political action
committee, its job was to raise money from supporters, call people to
swing their vote to Donald Trump, run ads, push conservative agendas, and
so on – ultimately helping the biz celeb win the White House race.
According to infosec biz Upguard earlier today, the fund exposed names,
contact numbers, states of residence, and voter ID numbers for more than
527,000 people, as well as strategy documents, marketing assets, and other
files used to fire up voters to the open internet. Specifically, the 2GB
of data was left in a, you guessed it, misconfigured Amazon Web Services
S3 bucket, it is claimed.
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