Chicago Online Voter Registration Database Vulnerable to Hackers!

[AtLiberty]

EXCLUSIVE: ELECTION SECURITY BREACH - CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION DATABASE DISCOVERED VULNERABLE TO HACKERS!

Personal Information, Social Security Numbers, Birthdates of 1.5 Million Voters Exposed to Online Tampering, Downloading, Identification Theft!

Breach Discovered, Video-Taped by Illinois Election Integrity Organization…

Blogged from the road by Brad Friedman
Oct. 23, 2006

Another stunning security breach has been exposed in our nation's electoral system, The BRAD BLOG has learned, as the online voter registration database — containing the personal information of some 1.5 million voters in Chicago — has been found to be vulnerable to both downloading and hacking.

The flawed electronic database which allowed the retrieval and modification of personal voter information — including social security numbers and birthdates of Chicago voters — was discovered recently by members of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project (IBIP), a non-partisan group of Election Integrity advocates.

IBIP members say they were able to not only get full editing access to the online database, but also found they could modify the records for registered voters, setting them to inactive and otherwise changing addresses and other key information fields.

The ability to gain access and hack the system, said by IBIP to be covered on the front page of tomorrow's Chicago Sun-Times was documented by the group on video-tape.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3654

[orleans]

1. so now what? i heard this on the radio tonight--just a blurb of it

on wbbm i think--around 8:30.

[mopinko]

2. glad this is getting so much air time

for once, my hubby heard about this before i did. i am always giving him the news.
kudos for the guy that did this, and to ibip. let's keep it kicking, shall we? ltte time, du.

[orleans]

3. this was on LOU DOBBS today (tuesday--not wednesday) n/t