Centralized Data Leak Exposes 154 Million Voter Records
A large voter database leak, uncovered by white hat hacker Chris Vickery, recently exposed 154 voter records. The records included sensitive data about these voters including gun ownership information and even preferences on certain issues like gay marriage. The hack comes at a time when the blockchain is now being used to improve voting transparency and....
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In the future, governments, companies and other institutions could be using the blockchain technology to track and verify the ownership of property records, banking records, securities and anything else posted on an open data platform. Oliver Goodenough, who directs the Center for Legal Innovation at the Vermont School of Law has been studying the potential of smart contracts and automated securities that can automatically and permanently record information and he finds that the blockchain network is the best and most robust way to do this: "Property records, particularly in the developing....
In this day and age, no source of information is safe from prying eyes and hackers attempting to breach databases. Every so often, a company will accidentally leak confidential data, to great chagrin of affected individuals. In the case of a London HIV clinic, the leak of patient data could prove to be quite costly. There is no better time for decentralized record-keeping solutions and blockchain technology it seems. Imagine being a HIV patient, and finding out your personal details have been leaked “on accident” by the clinic you entrusted the information to. Data leaks do not occur....
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What do Unchained Capital, NYDIG, Swan Bitcoin, and BlockFi have in common? Third-party providers. Even though the four companies confronted the data leak head-on and admitted their wrongs, the compromised security was someone else’s. Luckily, the data the bad actors stole was not critical financial information, but marketing-driven personal info. Terrible, to be sure, but […]