DNC: Attempted hack of Dem voter file thwarted

UNCjigga

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DNC just announced that an attempted hack of their national voter file was thwarted.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/democratic-national-committee-voter-database/index.html
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The DNC was alerted in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a cloud service provider and a security research firm that a fake login page had been created in an attempt to gather usernames and passwords that would allow access to the party's database, the source said.

The DNC and the two companies involved in detecting the operation say they believe they thwarted a potential attack.

The fraudulent page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details.

The source said the DNC is investigating who may have been responsible for the attempted attack, but that it has no reason to believe its voter file was accessed or altered.

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I believe this is the kind of info that would be useful to someone like Cambridge Analytica or any other entity looking to run a voter suppression campaign ahead of the midterms.
 

zinfamous

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Jul 12, 2006
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DNC just announced that an attempted hack of their national voter file was thwarted.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/democratic-national-committee-voter-database/index.html
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The DNC was alerted in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a cloud service provider and a security research firm that a fake login page had been created in an attempt to gather usernames and passwords that would allow access to the party's database, the source said.

The DNC and the two companies involved in detecting the operation say they believe they thwarted a potential attack.

The fraudulent page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details.

The source said the DNC is investigating who may have been responsible for the attempted attack, but that it has no reason to believe its voter file was accessed or altered.

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I believe this is the kind of info that would be useful to someone like Cambridge Analytica or any other entity looking to run a voter suppression campaign ahead of the midterms.

Why run a campaign when, as I am assuming the implications to be here, you just need to delete/de-register several 10s of thousands or so registered voters from the roll who, surprise surprise! won't know anything about it until they turn up to vote.
 

UNCjigga

Lifer
Dec 12, 2000
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Why run a campaign when, as I am assuming the implications to be here, you just need to delete/de-register several 10s of thousands or so registered voters from the roll who, surprise surprise! won't know anything about it until they turn up to vote.

I'm pretty sure those state voter rolls are not held or controlled by the DNC. The DNC data is what they give to candidates who are launching a campaign and need info on potential donors, x issue voters, district demographics, turnout models etc.