Russian blockchain voting platform
Hack or exploit on Jul 10, 2020 · Information Leakage
What happened
In the recent referendum on constitutional reform, 1.14 million Russians voted through the blockchain platform, but their data has been made public on the Internet and can be accessed directly from state-owned servers. Election officials Shared a ZIP file containing id card information, passport Numbers and other passport information of people who voted on the blockchain platform, sources said. The ZIP file is stored on a government website. The files are free and can be downloaded by anyone at any given time. In addition, the files are password-protected, though the passwords are not very strong. Meanwhile, there are other problems with the blockchain voting platform, such as a loophole for partial repeat votes.
Details
- Date
- Jul 10, 2020
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Information Leakage
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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