is one of the hacking forum's most popular topics. Anomali Labs says that within hours of the ad going online on October 5, there was a crowdfunding campaign up and running.

Multiple forum users pooled funds together to buy one or more databases part of this large offering and share them with the rest of the forum's registered users.

"At the time of this report, the first of 19 available voter databases, Kansas, has been acquired and published," Anomali Labs said. "A second crowdfunding project, voted by forum members to select the next state, is close to 20.7% of its funding goal. Oregon currently leads the voting for the second state to be published."

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In an interview with ZDNet, Anomali Labs lead researchers Roberto Sanchez told us authorities have beenmade aware of the forum thread.

"Our operators engaged with the threat actor 'Downloading,' the original vendor of the voter database thread, to assess their credibility," Sanchez told ZDNet.

"We believe this to be an alias for the forum administrator named 'Omnipotent' based on shared email address between Downloading and Omnipotent."

Furthermore, Omnipotent has a history of sharing voter databases on his forum. Before the new thread advertising voter records from 19 states, he also shared voter records on his forum from five other US states:

Washington 2018 Voter Database

Pennsylvania 2018 Voter Database

North Carolina 2018 Voter Database

Florida 2018 Voter Database

Connecticut 2018 Voter Database

Ohio 2018 Voter Database

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