Election system passwords mistakenly exposed on Colorado secretary of state's website

Passwords to Colorado voting equipment were inadvertently exposed when they were posted as part of a spreadsheet on the Colorado secretary of state’s website.

The leak of the information “does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections,” according to a press release from the office of Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, who acknowledged the error Tuesday.

Her office described the compromised information as “partial passwords to certain components of Colorado voting systems.”

The leak was revealed in a mass email from the Colorado Republican Party, which said it learned of the leak after an unnamed person sent to the party an affidavit attesting to how the person discovered it. The person said in the affidavit they accessed three times starting in early August a spreadsheet posted on the secretary of state’s website that contains an inventory, which the secretary is required to maintain, of voting system components used throughout Colorado’s 64 counties.




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