Bitcoin wallets — virtual storage facilities for the most commonly used cryptocurrency — publicly display transactions but not the identities of those making them. Trustwave was able to trace payments to a larger wallet, created in May, that has taken in $100 million in what the company believes is illicit proceeds, Mador said. Not all of that was from data sales, he said.
The wide availability of personal information is not new, but the idea that such a huge cache is for sale as the election approaches underscores how easy it would be for malicious actors to cause trouble. Trustwave said the hacker was offering 186 million voter records and 245 million records of other personal data.
National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday night that Iran had obtained voter registration information and used it to send threatening emails to Democrats while posing as the Proud Boys, a white supremacist group. Ratcliffe said the Russian government had also obtained voter registration information.Voter registration data is public in many states, but email addresses are not often part of the public data.
The databases on sale by Greenmoon2019 would allow malicious actors to target the email addresses of only registered Democrats, for example, or only registered Republicans."We are committed to finding and investigating fraud during this election. While we cannot comment on information we may or may not have received from the public, we want to assure the American people the FBI is closely coordinated with our federal, state, and local partners to safeguard our voting processes.
I'm not sure ANY of my personally identifying information is private anymore, honestly.
This cybersecurity firm wouldn't happen to be working for Trump, would it?
More corruption from the left. You begin to feel invincible when nobody makes you responsible for your actions
So glad republicans fucked us out of improving election security protocols .
As long as my money is safe, I don't give a crap what they do. I also mark all emails regarding politics as spam.
That cybersecurity firm knows where to go with that information. The FBI
That sounds like a LOT!
That's like, almost all the Americans.
So basically every voter?
Lol. Dems pushed for an election security bill for FOUR F***ING YEARS. GOP said no.
Umm.. just so we’re clear, that’s 2/3 of America.
all our credit card information was scattered to the four winds 3 years ago, now all our voter registration data is out in the open as well, it's almost as if these things were supposed to be protected and someone should be held responsible that they weren't .... or something
Nope not voting this year thank God