The Chicago Way: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

Election Systems & Software (ES&S) unintentionally left voter data for 1.8 million Chicago residents publicly accessible. The data was traced in an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, and its files contained sensitive information such as voter names, voter registration details and partly visible social security numbers. ES&S is one of the leading providers of voting machines and associated software across the US. Although the repository was swiftly secured, the breach reveals continued cybersecurity risks within democracy processes.