One million passports leaked online(theverge.com)
393 points by jruohonen 2 days ago | 230 comments
tl;dr: Security researcher Sammy Azdoufal discovered that Cannabis Club Systems (Nefos Solutions), an Irish company providing software to Spanish cannabis clubs, exposed nearly 1 million photo IDs—including passports, driver's licenses, addresses, and consumption data—at unprotected public URLs, with 5,000 new IDs added daily. The PuffPal companion app contained a plaintext Stripe key and APIs that leaked full user profiles by incrementing an ID number. Nefos took over a month to respond meaningfully, briefly re-exposed images to appease clubs, has now shut down PuffPal, and blames outsourcing firm 9Series.
HN Discussion:
  • ~Cannabis clubs share blame for poor vendor vetting; article wrongly absolves them
  • Photo IDs shouldn't be treated as credentials since they lack physical security features
  • Systems should not retain ID data after verification, violating GDPR principles
  • Age verification mandates create these privacy disasters; contact legislators
  • Similar leaks are widespread and common across many industries