The latest data filtering is voting records of 93.4 million Mexican citizens

Yet another violation data has grabbed international headlines, and this is the voter registration records of some 93.4 million will be Mexican citizens. On April 14, Chris Vickery of MacKeeper discovered he was able to access a volume of information, including names, birth dates, addresses, identification numbers, and more, all in an Amazon cloud server unprotected. In a blog, said that he contacted immediately to the authorities of the United States and Mexico (the United States Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Embassy of Mexico in Washington), whereby the base data was withdrawn from the public domain eight days after April 22.


By revealing the huge gap, Vickery wrote: "In my hands is something dangerous is the proof that someone confidential government data Mexico and the United States moved This is a hard drive with 93.4 million records.. downloaded voters - database of Mexican voters. "

The database, security expert says, "has been set up exclusively for public access." He adds that it has "no idea" why. "Under Mexican law, these files are" strictly confidential "with a penalty of up to 12 years in prison for anyone extraction of these data by the government for personal gain." He wrote in his blog Vickery. And needless to say, it was a serious security crisis.

"This is a significant violation, and the worst is that the data were arrested outside Mexico," Alex Cruz Farmer, vice president of cloud security company NSFocus told IBTimes UK. He will cite the strict rules governing data from Mexico that require data to remain within Mexico. If exported for any reason, the owner of the data must have the permission of the data before it can be exported.


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Amazon Web Services has not commented directly on the records, but says on its website: "While AWS manages security of the cloud, cloud security is the responsibility of the customer Customers keep control of security. they decide to apply to protect their own content, platforms, applications, systems and networks, no different than it would be for applications in a data center in place ".

For its part, the government of Mexico has expressed the seriousness of the offense. "The fact that this database is published for the public, is not only a crime, it is a national offense" says Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, president of the National Electoral Institute of Mexico. On Friday, the Institute said it filed a criminal complaint in the office of the Special Prosecutor for Electoral Crimes Mexico (FEPADE), and is also working with the country's cyber police