The Critical Privacy Crisis: How ID Verification Companies Are Failing to Protect Our Data

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Introduction In what may be one of the largest identity verification breaches in history, hackers have gained access to over 153 million driver's license scans from people across the United States and Canada. The breach, discovered and reported by security researcher Brian Krebs, reveals a live feed of ID verification data that has been continuously exfiltrated for over a year. This incident exposes the fundamental flaws in age and identity verification systems and raises critical questions abou...