A report released Monday following an internal investigation conducted by Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office blames the release of the personal information of 6 million voters on Gary Cooley, an IT employee in the office who was fired following the breach.
The report says an “anomaly” existed in IT processes that allowed requests for voter data from other government agencies to be “fast-tracked” and gave employees too much autonomy.
The Secretary of State’s Office, according to the report, made Cooley responsible to resolve the issues, and it says he failed to do so.
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