2 Deep Root Analytics
Similar to the Verizon breach, a conservative data analytics firm unwittingly left voter information on nearly 200 million Americans on an unsecured and easily accessible Amazon web server. The firm, Deep Root Analytics, had been contracted by the Republican National Committee to conduct voter research.
The roughly 1.1 terabytes of information included voter details such as names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and “modeled” voter ethnicities and religions. Like the Verizon breach, there’s no evidence that the data was actually hacked, but the scope and scale of the information were especially troubling.