This is from one of the UK tabloid newspaper websites. 10 years ago this would have been ignored or relegated to a minor footnote, especially as it’s in Australia, not the UK. Now that the general population understand the impact of having a scan of their ID documents stolen it’s front page stuff…:
Massive security breach as more than 50,000 Australian driving licences are leaked online – sparking fears hackers could use the data to apply for credit cards and loans
- More than 50,000 New South Wales driver’s licences have been leaked online
- The PDF and JPG data was stored on an Amazon cloud storage service
- It contained 108,535 scanned images of more than 50,000 driver’s licences
- Security consultant Bob Diachenko labelled the leak a ‘dangerous exposure’
- Fraudsters can empty bank accounts and take out loans under victims’ name
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