Submission + - GOP Senate Hackers Stole Donor Data from House GOP (politico.com)
SethJohnson writes: Per a story on the Politico website, Staffers for Senate Republicans’ campaign arm used old logins to capture information on more than 200,000 donors from the House GOP campaign committee over several months this year by breaking into its computer system.
This lucrative donor list has already helped the House Republican Campaign Committee collect more than $77 million in donations in 2018, so the contact lists are hugely attractive for Senate Republican Campaign Committee fundraising. The data breach is the result of poor deprovisioning policies within the House Republican Campaign Committee- allowing staff logins to persist after a person has left the organization.
Not mentioned within the article is how maintainers of this type of information will typical use fake donor identities within the database to detect illegitimate uses of the donor contact lists.
This lucrative donor list has already helped the House Republican Campaign Committee collect more than $77 million in donations in 2018, so the contact lists are hugely attractive for Senate Republican Campaign Committee fundraising. The data breach is the result of poor deprovisioning policies within the House Republican Campaign Committee- allowing staff logins to persist after a person has left the organization.
Not mentioned within the article is how maintainers of this type of information will typical use fake donor identities within the database to detect illegitimate uses of the donor contact lists.
