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A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces and pictures of their drivers’ licenses, exposed a set of administrative credentials online for more than a year potentially allowing hackers to access that sensitive data, according to screenshots and data obtained by 404 Media.

The Israel-based company, called AU10TIX, offers what it describes on its website as “full-service identity verification solutions.” This includes verifying peoples’ identity documents, conducting “liveness detection” in a real-time video stream with the user, and performing age verification, where a service will predict how old someone is based on their uploaded photo. AU10TIX also includes the logos of other companies on its site, such as Fiverr, PayPal, Coinbase, LinkedIn, and Upwork, some of which confirmed to 404 Media they are active or former AU10TIX clients.

The news comes as more social networks and pornography sites move towards an identity or age verification model, in which users are required to upload their real identity documents in order to access certain services. The breach highlights that identity services could themselves become a target for hackers. The cybersecurity researcher did not distribute the data beyond providing screenshots and some data to 404 Media for verification purposes.

“My personal reading of this situation is that an ID Verification service provider was entrusted with people's identities and it failed to implement simple measures to protect people's identities and sensitive ID documents,” Mossab Hussein, chief security officer at cybersecurity firm spiderSilk, and who alerted 404 Media to the exposed credentials, said.

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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What? The thing that literally everyone warned about in regards to requiring ID verification happened!?! WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?!

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Makes me think of the skydiving scene in Deadpool 2 where pretty much the entire team dies and Wade asks who could have seen that coming? I think it was Domino that responds with everyone, everyone saw that coming.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

everyone saw that coming

At the end anyway, if not at the start

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is why, Coursera.

This is why I won't give you my driver's license to verify my cybersecurity certificate.

This is why.

[–] brenticus@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The irony kills me on this one. I would like to imagine that if you send your ID in they auto-fail you, but I'm sure they're not that clever.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 4 months ago

The student has surpassed the master.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

No mass ID leak article would be complete without an ad for another online entity that requires ID submissions.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow, I didn’t notice.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

It’s quite shocking at this point haw few people use ad blockers

[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago

Those services feel so shady to me. You're just paying to deanonymize your data for them. Not to mention I think some of them are straight up owned by the data brokers you're supposedly having your data deleted from.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Imagine that.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Gasp I say, Gasp!