An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans
Source blog post (and free of CNN's obnoxious autoplay video): <a href="https://www.upguard.com/breaches/cloud-leak-chicago-voters" rel="nofollow">https://www.upguard.com/breaches/cloud-leak-chicago-voters</a><p>As soon as I read the headline, I immediately thought "AWS misconfiguration". A few recent massive government-data breaches (by contractors) have fallen into that category:<p>June 2017: <a href="http://gizmodo.com/gop-data-firm-accidentally-leaks-personal-details-of-ne-1796211612" rel="nofollow">http://gizmodo.com/gop-data-firm-accidentally-leaks-personal...</a><p>May 2017: <a href="http://gizmodo.com/top-defense-contractor-left-sensitive-pentagon-files-on-1795669632" rel="nofollow">http://gizmodo.com/top-defense-contractor-left-sensitive-pen...</a><p>Note that all of these breach reports (including this Chicago one) come from Upguard, which seems to have a method for scanning/crawling public S3 buckets.