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| Millions of US Voters Data Hits Dark Web Marketplace
Taking to an underground marketplace called RaidForums, a dark web vendor going by the pseudonym "Logan" has reportedly sold millions of voter records from nine states. The records include voters' first, middle and last names, voter IDs, birth dates, voter status, party affiliations, residential addresses and a slew of other details, according to Dark Reading. The stolen data reportedly came from Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma and Washington state. But "Logan" claims he has voter information from an additional 20 to 25 states, Jonathan Tomek, director of threat research at LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, told Dark Reading. Following the sale of 10 million voter records from Ohio and Arkansas for just $4, the cyber criminal's pattern does not suggest particular interest in financial gains. So how was such an alarming quantity of information collected? According to Tomek, it was through a combination of social engineering and Freedom of