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PRC Possession of a List of Likely Leaked or Compromised Data Including U.S. Voter Data and PII

A heavily redacted government intelligence product describes a PRC-related subject’s possession of a list of apparently leaked or compromised datasets that included U.S. voter-registration records and other personally identifiable information.

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Nature and scope of the source claim

The product says a redacted PRC-related subject possessed a document in 2019 cataloguing datasets; only a comparatively small portion concerned U.S. entities, while most entries involved targets elsewhere. It assesses that many entries were PII collections and says several were characterized as voter-registration records.

“most of the entries were targets in other countries.”
Analytic description
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“Furthermore, these PII-related data sets included several characterized as voter registration records.”
Analytic assessment
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Unspecified nationwide-scale voter dataset

The table lists an “Unspecified U.S. voter data” set as 204,822,241 records (45 GB), dated 2016, apparently including voters’ names, ages, phone numbers, and addresses. A note says a downloaded file indicated only the subject’s possible possession of this data, preserving uncertainty.

“204,822,241 records (45 GB)”
Data table
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“indicated his possible possession of this data as well.”
Data-table qualification
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Unidentified state voter databases

The table also lists two unidentified state voter databases with 1,746,069 and 7,893,248 records, both dated 2017. The visible fields include voter IDs, names, current and former addresses, birth dates, gender, phone numbers in one set, and citizenship information in the other.

“1,746,069 records”
Data table, named U.S. state 1
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“Includes voter IDs, full names, current addresses, previous addresses, birth dates, gender, and phone numbers.”
Data table, apparent contents
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“7,893,248 records”
Data table, named U.S. state 2
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“Includes voter IDs, full names, current addresses, former addresses, birth dates, gender, and citizenship information.”
Data table, apparent contents
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Broader catalogue and redaction limits

Beyond voter files, the visible list includes other potentially compromised U.S. data, including a 28-million-record citizen medical database and material labeled F-15-related data. Extensive black redactions obscure identities, volumes, dates, and contents across much of the product, so the visible table does not establish how each item was obtained or used.

“28 million records”
Data table, unspecified U.S. citizen medical database
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“F-15-Related Data”
United States Government Data table
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