Mystery: Info on 190 Million Voters Exposed

A security researcher found a misconfigured, publicly accessible database containing roughly 191 million U.S. voter records (names, mailing and email addresses, phone numbers, and voting participation); the data owner is unclear and NationBuilder has denied responsibility. The exposure highlights how political data brokers and campaigns often hold large troves of voter data with inadequate protections—this leak could enable targeted profiling, harassment, or other privacy harms even though highly sensitive financial or SSN data were not reported.