Nearly one million passports and driver's licenses from multiple countries were left unprotected online with zero password protection. Here's what happened.
  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    3·
    13 小时前

    Age verification laws are being suggested with absolutely no manner of remediation. If your details ate exposed because of crap like this, you will bear the brunt of the damage.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    34·
    1 天前

    This is basically what happened here in Sweden, when millions of phone call recordings to our national medical help line, were found to be accessible on the internet because, and I quote the company responsible:

    “Someone plugged the internet cord into the hard drive”

    But they claimed that the dammage was minimal because, and I again quote from the company responsible:

    “You would need to perform a command movement to slip in through the back way”

    Which the company claimed would be impossible for a normal person.

    In truth, you would just need to enter the correct URL, and then get access.

    Both of these expressions were instantly made part of the Swedish IT lexicon as insanely funny and incompetent expressions.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        23 小时前

        The CEO of the company responsible.

        It was actually refreshing to not just get a pretty non-answer from a media trained press representative.