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While major news is being covered this week....this went by with little mention.

USA based Credit collecting agencies such as Experian or Equifax either need to get their act together or be sued into nonexistence if they can't keep consumer data info safely guarded and not be selling to useless firms like Alteryx. My opinion of why these leaks might not be accidental...at end of post.

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120 million households exposed in massive database leak

Source: Forbes

120 million households exposed in massive database leak

Forbes

Thomas Fox-Brewster

Information on more than 120 million American households was sitting in a massive database found left exposed on the web earlier this month, Forbes has been told. It included an extraordinary range of personal details on residents, including addresses, ethnicity, interests and hobbies, income, right down to what kind of mortgage the house was under and how many children lived at the property. In total, there were 248 different data fields for each household, according to the researcher who uncovered the leak data this week.

While there were no names exposed, Chris Vickery, a cybersecurity researcher from UpGuard, told Forbes it was simple to determine who the data was linked to, either by looking at the details or by crosschecking with previous leaks. He found the data was sitting in an Amazon Web Services storage “bucket,” left open to anyone with an account, which are free to obtain.

As long as they knew the right URL to visit, an Amazon Web Services user could retrieve all the data, which was left online by marketing analytics company Alteryx. It was apparent that the firm had purchased the information from Experian, as part of a dataset called ConsumerView, on top of which Alteryx provides marketing and analytics services.

Vickery thinks the data was part of a product – the Alteryx Designer With Data – that sells for around $38,995 per license. In its own marketing for the Experian service, Alteryx notes that the database contains “consumer demographics, life event, direct response, property, and mortgage information for more than 235 million consumers.”

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These leaks are likely not an oversight, but maybe intentionally being done so in order for operatives outside of US territory might be involved in sabotaging in future USA elections in case states still use electronic voting systems. Marketing companies would use data for commerical uses, but I believe this may be where GOP might try and pull behind scenes stunts of stealing elections in every future US election with such data.

All it would take is social security numbers and voter id number of each citizen from other data records and then start rigging fraudulent outcomes in future elections in all states. That is why voting needs to be done via paper and no f'n optical scanning systems be used either since those can also be configured to cheat as well.