In 2016, the Republican National Committee hired the data analytics firm to gather political information about U.S. voters.
In June 2017, a security researcher discovered that the firm held data of roughly 198 million American citizens on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for almost two weeks that month. Exposed information included names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers and voter registration details.
The analytics firm took full responsibility, updated the access settings and put protocols in place to prevent further access.
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