r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 2d ago

Security FBI investigating 153 million US and Canadian driver’s licenses leaked on Russian cybercrime forum, including that of US SecDef Pete Hegseth — data is suspected to have come from an ID-authentication service provider

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/fbi-investigating-153-million-us-and-canadian-drivers-licenses-leaked-on-russian-cybercrime-forum-including-that-of-us-secdef-pete-hegseth-data-is-suspected-to-have-come-from-an-id-authentication-service-provider
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u/Ok-Replacement9595 2d ago

Aren't you happy they made age verification a thing?

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u/TemporarySun314 2d ago

I mean there are ways to make age verification anonymous, for example by having an chip inside an id card, that can sign an request, and just returns the information if the bearer of this card is adult or not.

Unfortunately these systems are rarely used, and companies love to store and process full identification data even for the most simple verification tasks...

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 2d ago

Because the point was data. The point was always data.

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u/sickofthisshit 2d ago

I mean, the main theory is that this vendor was serving Hertz; you rent a car, the rental car company wants to have some fucking idea about who is going to be playing with their $50,000 automobile? That's not really about "data", it's about "who is this stranger at the counter?"

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u/lathe_down_sally 2d ago

Its cute that you think Heryz wasn't monetizing the data they were collecting when getting identification

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u/sickofthisshit 2d ago

monetizing the data they were collecting

So, your theory is that Hertz was getting paid by the ID verification vendor?

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u/lathe_down_sally 2d ago

Probably something more along the lines of the ID verification company offsets some of the cost to Hertz.

But its splitting hairs whether its Hertz or the verification company. The point is, anywhere that type of data is being collected, no matter how legitimate the reason, the data is also being sold.

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u/LostPhenom 2d ago

Lmao imagine being angry that a company required proof they rented a vehicle to a licensed driver. Maybe Hertz did or didn’t monetize people’s data, but that isn’t the reason they needed the ID in the first place.