On top of the concomitant problems of disclosing such a significant leak to that many people, no one knows who is actually responsible for the misconfiguration that left the data open to anyone.

Researcher Chris Vickery, who this month found myriad databases left open to all and sundry, told FORBES he has his hands on all 300GB of voter data, which includes names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, party affiliations, and logs of whether or not they had voted in primary or general elections. The data appears to date back to 2000. It does not contain financial data or social security numbers.

Vickery looked up his own information in the database table covering Texas and confirmed it was all accurate. Reporters from CSO and DataBreaches.net did the same. Vickery also looked up several police officers in his city and confirmed the information was correct.