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Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

he discovered that those passports, drivers licenses, and photo IDs were stored at public URLs as simple as this: https://ccsnubev2.com/v8/images/_%7Bclub%7D/ID/%7Buser_id%7D-front.jpg

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

This will make a lots of kids happy! Free age verification materials!

[–] m4ylame0wecm@lemmy.zip 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

An Irish company called Cannabis Club Systems (CCS), formally Nefos Solutions, develops and provides the software these clubs use for sales, accounting, and admissions, including a verification system where receptionists upload your IDs and selfies to Nefos’ cloud.

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What were they smoking when they hashed out this solution?

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

No need to get salty.

[–] overstep8556@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

Paywalled.