The White House Government Transparency Task Force—Self Described Hacker Extracted 633,000 Voter Registration Files From a Maricopa County Site on the Eve of the 2020 Election

Today, the White House Government Transparency Task Force released intelligence community and FBI documents detailing an election cyber incident in which a self described hacker extracted 633,000 voter registration files from a Maricopa County site on the eve of the 2020…

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) August 6, 2026

… election.

The FBI expended significant resources to solve the case and even got the suspect to confess. But the Biden DOJ via the U.S. attorney in Phoenix and three state and local prosecutors all declined to prosecute. No accountability.

The episode highlights the threat President Trump raised in his speech a few weeks ago that U.S. intelligence has believed since January 2020 that voter registration data is not well protected.

China has gotten 220 million such files via buying, stealing or hacking. A guy in Arizona got 600,000-plus just by writing a script that bypassed weak security. Both got nonpublic data.

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FBI records confirm exfiltration of 633K voter files, including non-public information.

Maricopa County breach investigated by FBI, according to August 4 letter @FBIDirectorKash

"The FBI confirmed… pic.twitter.com/bl6PPGvLTh

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) August 6, 2026

… that voter records were illegally extracted from the site and identified a suspect who admitted the crime....illegally scraped 633,000 voter files that included 930 that were sensitive, nonpublic data."

CONTEXT: Voter files can be used for identify theft, fraudulent voter registration as well as targeting individuals for blackmail.

To date, Transparency Task Force has not identified evidence votes were changed.