Security News > 2023 > October > D.C. Board of Elections confirms voter data stolen in site hack
The District of Columbia Board of Elections is currently probing a data leak involving an unknown number of voter records following breach claims from a threat actor known as RansomedVC. DCBOE operates as an autonomous agency within the District of Columbia Government and is entrusted with overseeing elections, managing ballot access, and handling voter registration processes.
"We have successfully breached the District of Columbia Board Of Elections and have gotten more than 600k lines of USA Voters," the threat actor says.
"It should be noted that in the District of Columbia, some voter registration data-such as voter names, addresses, voting records, and party affiliation-is public information, unless it has been made confidential in accordance with District of Columbia rules and regulations," the Washington election authority said in its statement.
Election authorities do not provide access to confidential information such as voters' contact information and SSNs. RansomedVC told DataBreaches.net, who first reported the data leak on Thursday, that the stolen voter records would be sold to a single buyer.
While RansomedVC has claimed the breach and is now selling the data on their leak site, an anonymous source told BleepingComputer on October 3rd that DCBOE's stolen database was first put up for sale on the BreachForums and Sinister.
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