REPORT: Right Wing Jobs Group Exposed Details Of 1500+ Applicants, Including Social Security Numbers

The right wing Washington Free Beacon reports:

The right-wing group that leads a recruitment effort for Capitol Hill offices and allied nonprofits, the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), has for months left exposed the sensitive personal information of applicants to its online “jobs bank,” the Washington Free Beacon found, including members of the U.S. intelligence community, congressional aides, former Trump administration officials, and campaign operatives.

Led by former Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint and one of his former aides, Ed Corrigan, as well as by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, who the New York Times reported is paid $847,000 to serve as the organization’s “senior partner,” the Conservative Partnership Institute has exposed the social security numbers, home addresses, private client names, and other personal details of over 1,500 job applicants, including several who hold the highest level security clearance.

Read the full article. Per the report, the records are stored on an Amazon cloud account open to anyone, including “foreign adversaries.” Last week the Heritage Foundation disclosed a cyberattack which they claim likely came from Russia or China.

Hundreds of Conservative Job Seekers’ Personal Information Exposed by Meadows’ Conservative Partnership Institute, Which Left Resumes Uploaded to ‘Job Bank’ Unprotectedhttps://t.co/M0VJxqkJyG

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 18, 2024

SCOOP: The cyberattack that targeted the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday likely came from Chinese or Russian nation-state actors, a determination made by their security vendor after an investigation, a Heritage official told me. https://t.co/6qhBs0aeEH pic.twitter.com/mZDvbiqNyu

— Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) April 12, 2024