Passwords for Colorado’s voting systems were online for four months, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a Nov. 4 statement.
An employee with the secretary of state’s office uploaded the spreadsheet containing the passwords on June 21, Griswold said. The spreadsheet remained online until Oct. 24.
The employee who posted the passwords is no longer working for the office, Griswold has said. In the new update, the Democrat clarified that the staffer “amicably left” the job “before this matter took place.”
The public was not informed about the security problem until Oct. 29, five days after Griswold’s office said it discovered the issue. The Colorado Republican Party first informed the public about the situation….