Suspected data leak at national identity authentication platform: involves over 150 million citizens' ID documents, available for real-time lookup on the dark web
**National-level identity verification platform suspected of data breach: Over 150 million citizen credentials exposed, available for real-time query on the dark web** Review of previous incidents·Data breach crisis: The largest airport group in the UK suffered a data breach, with nearly 9 million customer data stolen; a medical giant was targeted by a ransomware attack, and 284 million patient privacy records were suspected to have been leaked; government systems exposed data on most citizens nationwide, and management of a national authority resigned all together; key suppliers were hacked, resulting in the leakage of data on over 18 million patients from tens of thousands of medical institutions. According to security insights from September 3rd, well-known security blogger Brian Krebs discovered that the US identity verification service IDScan was suspected of being hacked. A dark web service recently started selling access rights to over 153 million copies of driver’s licenses and identification cards from the US and Canada. Currently, the FBI is investigating this suspected data breach involving IDScan. This dark web market is called Nexus, which also claims to possess over 10 million other identity documents, more than 3 million travel or international passports, and at least 579,000 medical…