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If you verified your identity with #Twitter ( #X ), #Uber or #TikTok, your identity may be at risk.

Headline: ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses

Subtitle: As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one #cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.

Source: 404media.co/id-verification-se

#Privacy #Security

27 June at 0:46 | Open on mastodon.social
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Richard Degenne
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Jonathan Lamothe

@gerowen Perhaps I should read the article itself, but the summary makes it sound like a nothing burger.

As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one #cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.


Of course they could get hacked. Name me a service that couldn't. Does the article mention anything that makes them particularly vulnerable, or is it just about how bad such a hack would potentially be because of the nature of the information they store?

Edit: typo

Edit 2: Oh. That's not good.

@gerowen Perhaps I should read the article itself, but the summary makes it sound like a nothing burger.

As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one #cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.


Of course they could get hacked. Name me a service that couldn't. Does the article mention anything that makes them particularly vulnerable, or is it just about how bad such a hack would potentially be because...

27 June at 4:41 | Open on social.jlamothe.net
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