Suit accuses Georgia of massive data breach involving 6 million voters
Two Georgia women have filed a class action lawsuit alleging a massive data breach by Secretary of State Brian Kemp involving the Social Security numbers and other private information of more than six million voters statewide.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, alleges Kemp’s office released the information including personal identifying information to the media, political parties and other paying subscribers who legally buy voter information from the state.
The suit alleges the unauthorized information released in October in the voter lists also involved dates of birth and drivers’ license numbers. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution independently confirmed the inclusion of the personal data in the October file. The AJC did so by accessing the October data disc, looking up information for an AJC staffer and confirming his Social Security number and driver’s license information was included.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (right). KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM
Overall, it is unclear how many subscribers received the data. The AJC has returned its copy of the disc to the state.
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