6 comments

  • padjo 1 minute ago
    Funny was just testing the pilot of the Irish Government Digital Wallet. Definitely seems like the way forward if we're intent on doing identity verification. I'd rather the government mediate this than a bunch of random 3rd parties.
  • piva00 1 hour ago
    Brian Krebs' article is, in my opinion, a much better read for this story[0].

    [0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selli...

  • pelagicAustral 43 minutes ago
    I wonder if I can buy my own drivers licence since I lost it and now I need a copy to get some paperwork done! Hackers please!
  • lrvick 42 minutes ago
    If you are in California the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling all the data you give to the DMV, which is why I give them a P.O. Box.
    • adiabatichottub 28 minutes ago
      CADMV claims on their web site that they cannot accept a P.O. box as a residence address. I have yet to find anything in California state law supporting this policy, though IANAL. Their enforcement seems to be quite lax.
      • lrvick 17 minutes ago
        You cannot literally use "P.O. box" but if you use the virtual street address service the USPS offers now it works just fine.
  • jwilk 36 minutes ago
    The HN submission title is a garden-path sentence:

    Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned

    (Huh? How do you scan a company?)

    The original title is easier to parse:

    Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned

  • saghm 43 minutes ago
    This is a sacrifice we just have to be willing to make as a society if we want to project kids from the horror of using the internet
    • walrus01 12 minutes ago
      I think there's a number of people reading this who clearly didn't detect the satirical nature of this single sentence. It's blunt and obvious, but even so...
    • cynicalsecurity 11 minutes ago
      That was sarcasm.
    • LtWorf 25 minutes ago
      Except this helps no child.