Chicago Voter Database Hacked]

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From: Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]>
Date: October 24, 2006 7:47:49 AM EDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Fwd: [[email protected]: [funsec] Chicago Voter Database  
Hacked]

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> From: Fergie <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:39:45 GMT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [funsec] Chicago Voter Database Hacked
>
> Via ABC News.
>
> [snip]
>
> As if there weren't enough concerns about the integrity of the vote, a
> non-partisan civic organization today claimed it had hacked into the
> voter database for the 1.35 million voters in the city of Chicago.
>
> Bob Wilson, an official with the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project ?
> which bills itself as a not-for-profit civic organization dedicated to
> the correction of election system deficiencies ? tells ABC News that
> last week his organization hacked the database, which contains  
> detailed
> information about hundreds of thousands of Chicago voters, including
> their Social Security numbers, and dates of birth.
>
> "It was a serious identity theft problem, but also a problem that  
> could
> potentially create problems with the election," Wilson said.
>
> A nefarious hacker could have changed every voter's status from active
> to inactive, which would have prevented them from voting, he said.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2601085
>
> - ferg
>
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