2020 Maricopa County — 633,000 voter registration files scraped pre-election (FBI/WH declassified 2026)
Data compromised
633,000 voter registration files obtained; Center Square summary of the declassified materials states 930 of those records included sensitive information. Exact field inventory beyond voter-registration data not fully enumerated in public White House summary text.
Technical writeup
Verified via declassified U.S. government materials — In August 2026 the White House published previously classified documents on a Maricopa County, Arizona voter-registration data breach that occurred in the days before the Nov. 3, 2020 election. Per the White House election-integrity summary and contemporaneous Center Square reporting, a self-described hacker foiled security and obtained 633,000 voter registration files; the scraping was the most-flagged security incident in a U.S. spy-agency cyberintrusion log around Election Day and prompted an extensive FBI investigation that located a suspect in Fountain Hills, Arizona, who confessed. Prosecutors (including under the prior DOJ administration, per the White House framing) declined charges. Center Square states 930 of the extracted records included sensitive information. recordsAffected 633000. This is a 2020 incident with 2026 public declassification; it does not by itself prove vote tallies were altered.
Root cause
Self-described hacker bypassed security on Maricopa County’s voter registration site and illegally extracted voter registration files in the days before the Nov. 3, 2020 presidential election (White House declassified FBI / intelligence-community materials released Aug 2026).
References
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/election-integrity/
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Maricopa-County-Data-Breach.zip
- https://themercury.com/news/national/declassified-docs-reveal-over-600k-voter-files-hacked-prosecutors-declined-prosecution/article_f7cf7015-5119-5e0a-acbd-e25d35eee7cd.html