A Government Anti-Corruption Database Exposes Campaign Staff to Cyber Attacks

Hackers can weaponize FEC filings to attack presidential campaigns in 3 steps.

Political campaign staff are on the front lines of election cyber defense. (Daniel Njokos/Scopio)

Most employers consider employee personal information, such as home address and salary, to be private data that they must protect. Apparently disregarding lessons learned from the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach, the federal government…