Seller is asking $42,200 for all 19 US state voter databases.
Criminals (politicians, Russia?) using crowdfunding to pay other criminals to break in and steal voter registration data. Has your state been hacked?
Never forget, the Republican controlled Congress lead by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell voted against funding election security in August 2018 even though Homeland Security warned that 21 states were targeted. All 21 states asked for funding and help! #VoteThemAllOut
"To our knowledge this represents the first reference on the criminal underground of actors selling or distributing lists of 2018 voter registration data," said researchers from Anomali Labs and Intel471, the two companies who spotted the forum ad.
"We estimate that the entire contents of the breach could exceed 35 million records"
Which States allow downloading voting information for FREE?
Researchers say the data contains details such as full name, phone numbers, physical addresses, voting history, and other voting-related information. It is worth noting that some states consider this data public and offer it for download for free, but not all states have this policy.
“When these lists are combined with other breached data containing sensitive information, e.g., social security number and driver’s license, on underground forums it provides malicious actors with key data points for creating a target profile of the US electorate.”, Anomali Labs
The list and pricing, as advertised by the hacker himself, is as follows below:
Montana - 1000$
Louisiana - 5000$ (3 Million Voters)
Iowa - 1100$
Utah - 1100$
Oregon - 500$
South Carolina - 2500$
Wisconsin - 12500$ (6 Million Voters)
Kansas - 200$
Georgia - 250$
New Mexico - 4000$
Minnesota - 150$
Wyoming - 500$
Kentucky - 2000$
Idaho - 1000$
Tennessee - 2500$
South Dakota - 2500$
Mississippi - 1100$
West Virginia - 500$
Texas - 1300$ (14 Million Voters)
The seller revealed the voter records count for only three of the databases --Louisiana (3 million), Wisconsin (6 million), and Texas (14 million)-- totaling 23 million records. He is asking for $42,200 for all 19 databases.
New States for Sale
"At the time of this report, the first of 19 available voter databases, Kansas, has been acquired and published," Anomali Labs said.
"A second crowdfunding project, voted by forum members to select the next state, is close to 20.7% of its funding goal. Oregon currently leads the voting for the second state to be published."
"We believe this to be an alias for the forum administrator named 'Omnipotent' based on shared email address between Downloading and Omnipotent."
Furthermore, Omnipotent has a history of sharing voter databases on his forum. Before the new thread advertising voter records from 19 states, he also shared voter records on his forum from five other US states:
Washington 2018 Voter Database
Pennsylvania 2018 Voter Database
North Carolina 2018 Voter Database
Florida 2018 Voter Database
Connecticut 2018 Voter Database
Ohio 2018 Voter Database
Read Anomali Labs article
