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  • Who Put This Huge Database of U.S. Voting Records Online? (online for the taking)

    12/28/2015 1:57:13 PM PST · by LibWhacker · 57 replies
    CSOonline ^ | 12/28/15 | Steve Ragan
    Massive database exposed to public, major political data managers deny ownershipA misconfigured database has led to the disclosure of 191 million voter records. The database, discovered by researcher Chris Vickery, doesn't seem to have an owner; it's just sitting in the public – waiting to be discovered by anyone who happens to be looking. What's in the database? The database was discovered by researcher Chris Vickery, who shared his findings with Databreaches.net. The two attempted to locate the owner of the database based on the records it housed and other details. However, their attempts didn't pan out, so they came...
  • Experian Hit With Class Action Over ID Theft Service

    07/21/2015 2:17:21 PM PDT · by snarkpup · 1 replies
    Krebs on Security ^ | July 21, 2015 | Brian Krebs
    Big-three credit bureau Experian is the target of a class-action lawsuit just filed in California. The suit alleges that Experian negligently violated consumer protection laws when it failed to detect for nearly 10 months that a customer of its data broker subsidiary was a scammer who ran a criminal service that resold consumer data to identity thieves.