Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

 (techdirt.com)

45 points | by beardyw 1 hour ago

5 comments

  • piva00 59 minutes ago
    Brian Krebs' article is, in my opinion, a much better read for this story[0].

    [0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selli...

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  • pelagicAustral 40 minutes ago
    I wonder if I can buy my own drivers licence since I lost it and now I need a copy to get some paperwork done! Hackers please!
  • lrvick 39 minutes ago
    If you are in California the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling all the data you give to the DMV, which is why I give them a P.O. Box.
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    • adiabatichottub 24 minutes ago
      CADMV claims on their web site that they cannot accept a P.O. box as a residence address. I have yet to find anything in California state law supporting this policy, though IANAL. Their enforcement seems to be quite lax.
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      • lrvick 14 minutes ago
        You cannot literally use "P.O. box" but if you use the virtual street address service the USPS offers now it works just fine.
  • jwilk 32 minutes ago
    The HN submission title is a garden-path sentence:

    Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned

    (Huh? How do you scan a company?)

    The original title is easier to parse:

    Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned

  • saghm 40 minutes ago
    This is a sacrifice we just have to be willing to make as a society if we want to project kids from the horror of using the internet
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    • walrus01 8 minutes ago
      I think there's a number of people reading this who clearly didn't detect the satirical nature of this single sentence. It's blunt and obvious, but even so...
    • cynicalsecurity 8 minutes ago
      That was sarcasm.
    • LtWorf 22 minutes ago
      Except this helps no child.