Someone's in hot water: Tea party super PAC group 'spilled 500, 000+ voters' info' all over web

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/17/republican_tea_party_fund_security_blunder/

By Chris Williams
Editor in Chief
The Register
17 Oct 2018

Now, now, America. Don't go overboard. Again.

More than half a million folks' names and phone numbers, plus other 
sensitive files, were accidentally spilled onto the internet by a 
misconfigured server operated by the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, it 
is claimed.

That fund is a Republican super PAC that campaigned in the 2016 
presidential elections, backed Alabama’s Roy Moore and New Jersey’s Jay 
Webber, and supported other rightwing activities. As a political action 
committee, its job was to raise money from supporters, call people to 
swing their vote to Donald Trump, run ads, push conservative agendas, and 
so on – ultimately helping the biz celeb win the White House race.

According to infosec biz Upguard earlier today, the fund exposed names, 
contact numbers, states of residence, and voter ID numbers for more than 
527,000 people, as well as strategy documents, marketing assets, and other 
files used to fire up voters to the open internet. Specifically, the 2GB 
of data was left in a, you guessed it, misconfigured Amazon Web Services 
S3 bucket, it is claimed.

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