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Russian journalists have discovered data from Michigan voter data rolls—including the personal info of 7.6 million Michigan voters—on a Russian hackers’ platform. It also includes voter info from other swing states, including Florida and NC https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4474867
The hilarious—and extremely Russian—part of this is that these hackers were apparently using this data to get that reward money that the State Department was offering for information on election interference. https://www.state.gov/rewards-for-justice-reward-offer-for-information-on-foreign-interference-in-u-s-elections/
One hacker wrote in the dark web forum that they managed to get $4,000 from the State Department.
NB: As some people have correctly pointed out, this is publicly available information. A lot of it has been floating around for a while. It’s just unclear what these hackers are using it for, other than scamming the State Department.
UPDATE: Michigan responds to the @kommersant story, says they were not hacked and that the info is publicly available. https://twitter.com/MichSoS/status/1300803657735245824
This makes it even more crazy that some hackers were able to reward money from the State Department for this...
For anyone interested, @KevinRothrock has written up what we know so far about the @kommersant story. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/09/01/russian-hackers-leak-personal-data-of-nearly-every-voter-in-michigan-plus-a-million-more-voters-in-four-other-states
