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Investigation: Passwords on Colorado Secretary of State site ‘mistakenly’ posted
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NO ONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR VOTING MACHINE PASSWORDS POSTED UNENCRYPTED ONLINE
Posted: Dec 9, 2024 / 10:16 AM MST
Updated: Dec 9, 2024 / 05:40 PM MST
https://kdvr.com/news/local/investigation-passwords-on-colorado-secretary-of-state-site-mistakenly-posted/
DENVER (KDVR) — A third party completed its investigation after the Colorado Secretary of State’s website disclosed partial passwords for voting systems, finding that the posted passwords were a mistake.
Baird Quinn, LLC was chosen as a third party to investigate the cause of the election passwords that were posted online for more than 3 months. The employment attorney conducted several interviews and gained full access to the department’s documents to determine how this happened and provide recommendations for the future. Its report was summarized in a release from the Secretary of State’s Office. In the 19-page report, the law firm found that a former employee, who resigned months before the incident, kept a hidden tab on a worksheet as “scratch paper.” Within this tab, she kept passwords relating to some voting equipment.
The employee resigned in May, and the investigation found no one else knew about this hidden tab. Once other employees took over, they eventually publicly disclosed the worksheets in their native format to make them more user-friendly — not knowing there was a hidden tab with passwords. Following the investigation, the law firm found that while the former employee’s actions led to the posting of passwords, she never violated policy as she had “no reasonable expectation that the file would ever be publicly disclosed in its native format,” according to the investigation. Meanwhile, the other employees involved in posting the worksheets weren’t at fault either, as they didn’t know about the hidden tab with passwords.
The investigation found that “a series of inadvertent and unforeseen events” led to the passwords being “mistakenly, unknowingly and unintentionally” posted.
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