Republican National Committee Contractor Sued Over Immense Voter Data Leak

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Deep Root Analytics, LLC, a data-analytics outfit contracted in 2016 by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to collect voter data on where individuals may stand on certain issues, has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from the allegedly accidental leak of nearly 200 million American voters’ personally identifiable information. Pegging the event as the largest leak of U.S. voter data in history, the 12-page lawsuit scathes that despite the sensitive nature of the data stored by Deep Root Analytics, the company allegedly kept voter information on a cloud server that was not password protected. Vulnerable voter information, the lawsuit continues, may include:

• Names
• Addresses
• Telephone numbers
• Dates of birth
• Reddit.com browsing histories
• Voter ID numbers

Also at issue in the complaint is Deep Root’s alleged failure to notify proposed class members that their personal data was stolen and vulnerable in a “timely, accurate and adequate” fashion, as well as detail the specific types of private information that was stolen.

“This is not a case in which nefarious hackers ‘breached the mainframe’ and stole sensitive information,” the lawsuit says. “This is a case in which Deep Root, the custodian of the private information of nearly 200 million Americans put that private information online without a password.”