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Hackers Are Selling Russian Voters’ Data Recorded On Blockchain, Collected From Constitutional Amendment Nationwide Voting
Summary: Personal information of Russian participants in nationwide electronic votings was stolen and sold by hackers, as reported by Russian newspaper Kommersant. The stolen information, including voters’ passport data that can be combined with other leaked database, is consisted of 1.1 million data points, with each point selling $1.5. Aiming to amend the Russian constitution, the ...
Personal information of Russian participants in nationwide electronic votings was stolen and sold by hackers, as reported by Russian newspaper Kommersant.
The stolen information, including voters’ passport data that can be combined with other leaked database, is consisted of 1.1 million data points, with each point selling $1.5.
Aiming to amend the Russian constitution, the nationwide online votings took place from June 25 to July 1. Based on Bitfury’s open-source Exonum blockchain with the help of Kaspersky Lab, the voting system is reportedly weak in privacy protection.
While Artyom Kostyrko, the head of the department for Improvement of Territorial of Moscow Government, claimed that Kommersant's article is “just a loud headline to attract attention”, the founder of cybersecurity firm DeviceLock argues the database was true.
By Lily Yang
Tags: Blockchain,Hack,Regulation
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