Over three billion internet credentials and other types of personal data have been stolen by hackers and two-thirds of victims are unaware that their data has been compromised, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and McAfee. As much as data on voters can be a political asset, it can also be a liability. Regardless of the point of exposure, compromised voter data usually includes sensitive and personally identifiable information. Voter data can be exposed by either a malicious hack, an accidental leak, poorly configured security settings, or the physical theft of hardware. While wider international media coverage has largely looked at data hacks and breaches in elections through the lens of leaked emails, nation-state involvement in misinformation campaigns, or insecure infrastructure (such as vulnerabilities in voting booth software), voter data is also at risk. In fact, the problem has already reached a global scale. Today, voter data is just as much of a target for malicious hacks and breaches as, say, credit card data, and is equally susceptible to poorly secured digital infrastructure. Originally published in Inside the Influence Industry's Personal Data: Political Persuasion - How it worksby Tactical Tech's Data & Politics team.
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