The District of Columbia Board of Elections has confirmed a data breach. A hacking group which went by the name “pwncoder” has claimed in a Tuesday post in an online forum where stolen data is bought and sold, that they had breached the DC Board of Elections voter database accessing 600,000 lines of voter data. They offered to sell the data, which included the last four digits of voters’ social security numbers, drivers' license numbers and addresses, among other data. The agency has taken its website offline.

The breach of the Washington DC election authority is the second major cybersecurity incident affecting the U.S. capital this year. Earlier in the year, an incident targeting the city’s health insurance exchange was also affected. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page