Nearly one million passports, driver's licenses from European countries exposed for months on public internet; cannabis club age-verification platform stored documents with no password, encryption or authentication

Nearly one million passports, driver's licenses from European countries exposed for months on public internet; cannabis club age-verification platform stored documents with no password, encryption or authentication—accessible via simple URLs.

Nearly a million passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL

A 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.How Did Nearly a Million Identity Documents End Up Unprotected?What Happens When Identity Documents Are Stolen at Scale?Why Can’t You Just “Change” Your Passport Like a Password? Nearly a million passports and ...