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The White House has released a series of newly declassified documents related to the 2020 election, including records detailing a cyber intrusion involving the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in Arizona that exposed hundreds of thousands of voter records and prompted an FBI investigation.
According to a letter from FBI Director Kash Patel to the White House Task Force on Government Transparency, a hacker obtained approximately 633,000 Maricopa County voter records.
The documents state that the data included information on 930 voters that was not publicly available, including records involving domestic abuse victims.
The newly released material also includes information from a November 2020 FBI interview with an individual whose name has been redacted.
During that interview, the individual reportedly told investigators he believed he had extracted between 1 million and 2 million files, representing approximately four gigabytes of data.
According to the interview summary, the individual said the information was obtained by using a PowerShell script to exploit the Maricopa County Recorder’s website.