Election Leak: Political Party Launches Legal Action Against Security Researcher Jason Murdock - IBTimes
go to original April 28, 2016

Massive Data Breach of Mexican Voter Data (MacKeeperTV)

A Mexican political party called Movimiento Ciudadano – or Citizens Movement - has hinted it was responsible for the massive leak of 93.4 million voter records earlier this month. However, instead of issuing an apology, the politicians instead launched an attack against the "hacker" who found the data – even though no hack took place.

As previously reported, well-known security researcher Chris Vickery uncovered the electoral database on an open port using the Shodan search engine. The trove of data – which contained names, home addresses and National ID numbers on millions of citizens – had no password protection or encryption in place.

...Even though the data was left unprotected online, politician Delgado Ranauro said he now intends to "present a criminal complaint against person or persons responsible for the cyberattack." He added: "Citizens Movement demands punishment for [the] cyber attackers who violated our security protocols."

In response to the statement, researcher Chris Vickery told DataBreaches.net he strongly denies any accusations of hacking. He said: "This database had no password or any other protection enabled. It was being published openly to the world. There simply was nothing to hack even if I had wanted to do so.

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