America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
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- A dark web service called Nexus sold access to 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses and 3 million travel documents, linked to identity verification company IDScan.
- The breach has national security implications, as license data can be used for intelligence operations by adversaries like China, referencing past thefts from OPM, Equifax, and others.
- The U.S. military has only recently disabled advertising identifiers on some devices, which is a basic mitigation that should have been implemented years ago and is an incomplete solution.
- A hacker stole $320 million in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, returned 85%, but kept $47 million, highlighting a trend of 'white hat' hacks where perpetrators keep a cut, often facing no legal consequences.
- Positive developments include Google's Fairwind Program for AI cyber defense, the international takedown of the Sality botnet, and a U.S.-U.K. agreement to combat scam compounds.
- Other news: Ukraine's top prosecutor resigned over a scam call center scandal, French notaries lost 35 million euros in a BEC campaign, and Russia mandated drone defenses for data centers.