Passwords for Colorado’s voting systems were online for four months, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a Nov. 4 statement.
An employee with the secretary of state’s office uploaded the spreadsheet containing the passwords on June 21, Griswold said. The spreadsheet remained online until Oct. 24.
The employee who posted the passwords is no longer working for the office, Griswold has said. In the new update, the Democrat clarified that the staffer “amicably left” the job “before this matter took place.”
The public was not informed about the security problem until Oct. 29, five days after Griswold’s office said it discovered the issue. The Colorado Republican Party first informed the public about the situation.
“Making this public without understanding the size and scope of the disclosure, and without having a concrete plan for determining our technical and outreach strategy, would run contrary to cybersecurity best practices and carried a significant risk of fueling the major disinformation environment that surrounds elections today,” the secretary of state’s office said. […]
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