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US Cybersecurity firm highlights risks in access to voter information in upcoming election

Manas PimpalkhareBy Manas PimpalkhareUpdated:October 22, 2020 on October 22, 2020
US Cybersecurity firm highlights risks in access to voter information in upcoming election
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Trustwave, a US-based cybersecurity firm, has revealed that sensitive data for voter data for nearly 200 million American citizens is available on the dark web. Calling on the need for greater security measures over voter information, the firm clarified that the data was available for sale, and it is alarming that access to such information is readily and easily available for whoever is willing to purchase it. 

Ziv Mador, vice president of security research at Trustwave, stated that “An enormous amount of data about U.S. citizens is available to cybercriminals”. Moreover, this data is also available to foreign adversaries, who are expected to spare no stone unturned in harming the electoral process in the US. 

These multitudes of gigabytes of voter data can be extremely detrimental to elections, by creating several disinformation campaigns and supporting various scams. Email phishing and phone and text scams can also be created using this valuable information. 

What does the data include?

A considerable part of the data that  Trustwave observed on the dark web is composed of freely available government data. Most American states offer voter registration data on public platforms. 

Added to this encyclopaedia of voter info, Trustwave’s inquiry also clarified that leaked data was also available on the dark web forum. The leaked data included “material stolen in various hacks of companies in recent years”, according to NBC. 

Trustwave also pinpointed a specific hacker, going by the alias Greenmoon2019, who collected all this information and had put it up on sale. This malicious actor had allegedly been accepting payments for this data in bitcoins and had stored these payments in a digital wallet. 

Greenmoon219 held and put for sale the details of 186 million US voters and 245 million records of other personal data.    

White House raised alarms

White House Correspondent for CNN, Kaitlan Collins took to Twitter at roughly 6 PM local time in Washington D.C. and reported that the FBI had scheduled an urgent press conference about election security. 

At FBI presser, Director of National Intelligence Ratcliffe says Iran and Russia have “taken specific actions to influence public opinion” relating to the election. He says they’ve also obtained voter registration information.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 21, 2020

The conference was addressed by the US Director of National Intelligence, who reported that Iran and Russia had taken specific measures to influence public opinion during election times. The DNI also stated that these foreign actors have obtained voter registration information. 

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