Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet

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Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet

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m4ylame0wecm

lemmy.zip

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.

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discuss.tchncs.de

What were they smoking when they hashed out this solution?

masterofn001 reply

lemmy.ca

No need to get salty.

Maeve reply

kbin.earth

🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏

Eager Eagle

lemmy.world

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

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

overstep8556

jlai.lu

Paywalled.