Hackers Had Live Access to 153M Scanned IDs at a Verification Company for Over a Year
SuB8u · x · 2026-09-06
A massive breach revealed hackers had live access to an identity verification company's database for over a year.
- More than 153 million driver's license scans from US and Canada ended up for sale on the dark web; the exposed database added another 400,000 records the very day the breach was disclosed, right before takedown.
- Citing Krebs and Eric Goldman's earlier work, the piece argues all age/identity verification technologies are major privacy risks regardless of vendor claims.
- Centralized verification sounds great "till it isn't" — there is no age verification that doesn't put people at risk.
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