The Commission runs largely a Windows-based environment

well, well

40 million. The population is 70 million, so that’s most, it not all eligible voters. Wow.

Well, this is certainly going to encourage more people to register to vote.

Accessed data includes voters’ names, addresses, and nonpublic voter information

According to the notice, the personal data accessed by the hackers includes names, email addresses and postal addresses, phone numbers 🖍️ and any correspondence that voters had with the Commission, including emails (more on that below). Voters registered to vote anonymously are not affected by the cyberattack, the Commission confirmed.

The compromised data does, however, include information on voters who opted out of having their information published in the public voter registers, which are available to anyone wanting to purchase.

Holy shit

I’m pretty sure you used to be able to look at the electoral roll in your local library. You could opt out of your name being published if you wanted. Similarly, everyone used to have their address and phone number published in the phone book. You could opt out of that too, and I always did after a lunatic whose high school teacher had the same name as me decided I was LYING and phoned me over and over again, yelling at me. It seems wild to me now that we were so devil-may-care back then.

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