"DC Board of Elections Says Full Voter Roll Compromised in Data Breach"

The District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) recently announced that its full voter roll might have been accessed in a recent data breach at a third-party services provider.  The incident was initially disclosed on October 6, when the agency said that a threat actor accessed 600,000 lines of US voter data after breaching DataNet, which provides website hosting services to DCBOE.  In a recent update, DCBOE revealed that the attackers might have accessed the information of all registered voters.  DataNet Systems confirmed that bad actors may have had access to the full voter roll, which includes personal identifiable information (PII), including partial social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, and contact information such as phone numbers and email addresses.  According to the agency, DataNet has yet to determine if the full voter roll was indeed accessed, when that might have happened, and how many individuals might have been impacted.  DCBOE says that it will contact all registered voters to inform them of the incident and that it will be working with Google’s cybersecurity arm, Mandiant, to investigate the data breach.

SecurityWeek reports: "DC Board of Elections Says Full Voter Roll Compromised in Data Breach"