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14.8 million records of Texas voter data exposed online, reports say

The file includes the voter name, address, gender, ethnicity, race, political beliefs, and several years' worth of voting history.

(STATESMAN) -- Data containing personal information on millions of Texans has been posted online, according to a report in TechCrunch.

The voter data was contained in a single file with an estimated 14.8 million records, left on an unsecured server without a password, according to the tech news site.

The report said it’s not clear who owned the server where the exposed file was found, but one analysis of the data suggested that it was likely originally compiled by Data Trust, a Republican-focused data analytics firm created by the GOP to provide campaigns with voter data, according to the report.

Data Trust did not immediately return a request for comment left by the American-Statesman.

The file contained dozens of fields, including personal information like a voter’s name, address, gender and several years’ worth of voting history, including primaries and presidential elections, according to the report.

That sort of data is publicly available from counties or the Texas Secretary of State’s office.

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