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Chicago Board of Elections

Chicago Board of Elections Data Breach (2006)

Chicago Board of Elections

highVERIS
Disclosed

January 1, 2006

7390 days ago

Records

1.4M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Government

Description

An official from the not-for-profit Illinois Ballot Integrity Project says his organization hacked into Chicago's voter database, compromising the names, SSNs and dates of birth of 1.35 million residents. The Chicago Election Board is reportedly looking into removing SSNs from the database. Election officials have patched the flaw that allowed the intrusion.

Chicago Board of Elections Data Breach (2006) - 1.4M Records | ExposedMap