White House Records Reveal 2020 Maricopa County Voter Data Breach

White House records released on August 6, 2026, reveal that a former city computer technician illegally exfiltrated 633,000 voter files from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office shortly before the 2020 presidential election. The stolen data included names, birth dates, and addresses, with roughly 930 files containing sensitive non-public information about law enforcement officers, judges, and domestic violence victims.

Kash Patel, Director of the FBI, stated that the bureau spent significant resources solving the cybercrime. The suspect admitted to exploiting a website vulnerability to extract between 1 million and 2 million files, though he claimed to have destroyed the data prior to an FBI raid on his Fountain Hills home in November 2020.

Despite the suspect's confession, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General's Office, and the Maricopa and Pinal County Attorney's Offices all declined to prosecute the individual. John Solomon, chairman of the White House Government Transparency Task Force, stated there is no evidence that any votes were changed as a result of the breach.