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Hack cracked: Board of Elections Website leaves Social Security numbers vulnerable

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For at least the last six years, a loophole in the Chicago B Web site has exposed the Soc. Sec.numbers and birth dates of more than 1,000,000 registered voters to anyone with a computer, a Web connection and rudimentary programming knowledge.
Until Saturday, this data -- all that is necessary for an identity thief has been available through a Web site intended to tell voters their registration status.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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