Hello, whats this? The city of Chicago is investigating a security problem with it’s elections website. The Diebold machines are bad enough as it is without things like this. What is that exactly? Well, apparently hackers at some point had access to the Social Security Numbers for some 1.3 million voters.
“Obviously, we are very concerned,” Leach said Monday. “We have no reason to believe there was (theft), but we want to be able to assure people there wasn’t.”
A watchdog group, the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project, exposed the vulnerability and alerted officials last week, Leach said.
“This was a very serious vulnerability,” project member Peter Zelchenko said.
A malevolent hacker could have tampered with voter registration data, such as inactivating certain voters’ registration or changing their polling places in the online database, as well as accessed Social Security numbers, names, birth dates and addresses, the group said.
More and more I wonder…did the Bush administration actually win the last election? Someone get Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum on the phone. I smell a caper plot.
[tags]Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Chicago Voters, Website Security, Privacy, Hackers, Bush, White House[/tags]
