A state hotline opened Thursday for questions on the data breach that exposed private information of more than 6 million Georgia voters has received more than 440 calls from the public through noon today.
More than half of the calls came Friday, the first full day of operation after the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office opened it. The line remains open for calls at 404-654-6045.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp last week fired an IT employee over what he called a “clerical error.” According to Kemp, the employee inadvertently added the personal data including Social Security numbers and birth dates to a public statewide voter file before it was sent out last month to 12 organizations who regularly subscribe to “voter lists” maintained by the state.
The groups receiving the data — delivered via compact discs — included state political parties, news media organizations and Georgia GunOwner Magazine.
Kemp also said all data discs illegally disclosing the private information had either been recovered or destroyed. He said he planned to hire top auditing agency Ernst & Young to review his technology department.
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