The Washington Post reports Corman’s grab for social security numbers is “raising alarms” among cybersecurity experts
PENNSYLVANIA — Jake Corman continues to stumble and bumble his way through his attempt at a fraudit of the 2020 election. Now he’s coming after the social security and driver’s license numbers of all 9 million registered voters in Pennsylvania so he can hand them over to a private contractor. Today, a cybersecurity expert confirmed to The Washington Post that this would put every registered voter’s information at risk of theft and fraud:
The Washington Post: The latest partisan audit is risking voters’ personal data
By Joseph Marks
“A partisan review of the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania threatens to endanger the personal information of the state’s 7 million voters.
Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers voted to subpoena a wide range of voter data, including information that’s highly valuable to hackers. The subpoena applies to everyone who cast ballots in the state’s May 2020 primary and the November general election, as Elise Viebeck reports.
The data include:
- Names
- Dates of birth
- Driver’s license numbers
- The last four digits of social security number
That’s raising alarms among election and security analysts. They warn consolidating that information and handing it over to a private company for auditing could dramatically raise the likelihood of the data being leaked or stolen by hackers.
‘All of the information being requested by this subpoena is exactly what a criminal would need to steal someone’s identity and open up fraudulent accounts in the names of any of these voters,’ Maurice Turner, cybersecurity fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy and a longtime election security advocate, told me.”
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