Nearly one million passports and IDs exposed online with no password protection for months
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Rivo Raphaël Chreçant
Summary
A massive data exposure incident left nearly one million passports, driver's licenses, and photo IDs from multiple countries unprotected on the public internet with no password, encryption, or access controls. The documents were accessible to anyone with a simple URL for months before being taken offline. A journalist demonstrated the vulnerability by typing random characters into a browser and pulling up real passports and IDs from German, Spanish, and other nationals. The breach represents one of the largest exposures of identity documents ever discovered.
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bskyNearly one million passports and IDs exposed online with no password protection for monthscambridgeanalytica.orgKey quotes
· 3 pulledA journalist typing a few letters and numbers into a web browser pulled up the passport of a young woman from Germany.
Then a Spanish man's passport. Then another man's driver's license. All of it sitting on the public internet with no password, no encryption, no access control whatsoever.
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs from multiple countries were exposed across unprotected public URLs, accessible to anyone with a link.
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