Private records of 93.4 million Mexican voters exposed in data breach

The personal information of more than 93.4 million Mexican voters was exposed this week in a massive data breach.

A leaky database, which was not password-protected, is said to contain Mexican citizens’ names, addresses, dates of birth, as well as occupations and the names of the voters’ parents, according to noted MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery. The database was reportedly downloaded to an Amazon server by an unknown party.

The database has now been secured. It contained no financial information about the voters, according to Vickery.

A detailed account of the discovery was reported at DataBreaches.net after Vickery published his findings on the MacKeeper blog. Notification of the breach was temporarily withheld while Mexican authorities investigated, according to the site’s author, Dissent Doe, a pseudonymous security blogger. An official with Mexico’s Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) said the Amazon server containing the millions of voter records did not belong to the Mexican government.

An INE spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.

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