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153M+ US & Canada drivers licenses leaked on the dark web (Update: source of the leak revealed) (krebsonsecurity.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub
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From the article:

“it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana.”

Worth noting that 5 US states (e.g. Florida) have stopped issuing standard drivers licenses and effectively force their residents to obtain a “Real ID” which includes additional data -- which of course makes more sensitive data available to cybercriminals.

(edit) BTW, would be useful to have a free-world venue for posts just about data breaches. Proposal here.

Update: Source of the leak revealed

The IDScan verification giant got breached

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

Can we get eIDs now, please?

Edit: this could be done poorly, so let me clarify that we need government issued smart cards used for cryptographic authentication, which would deprecate photos of KYC documents as a method of auth.

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