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Hertz is a major global car rental company providing vehicle rentals and related services to leisure and business travelers.
Brian Krebs reports a hacker selling searchable access to 153 million US and Canadian licences, with suspicion pointing at the vendor IDScan.net. Any age gate built on a document scan owns that exposure.
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Every company that outsourced KYC document capture now owns an exposure it never inventoried, because the images being sold appear to come from the verifier rather than from any of its customers. The FBI opened the file in New Orleans.
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IDScan.net says an unauthorized third party may have accessed or copied full names and government-issued ID numbers from customer accounts on its cloud, after 153 million driver's licenses appeared for sale on a dark web site.
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The vendor runs more than 21 million document checks a month for clients including Hertz, GameStop and FedEx, and the plaintiffs suing in New Orleans infer their own exposure from a car rental because nobody has told them otherwise.
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IDScan.net is notifying people about names and ID numbers and offering credit monitoring, while the records Brian Krebs examined each carried infrared and ultraviolet captures, the layer that document authentication actually tests.
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KrebsOnSecurity traced the records toward New Orleans ID-verification vendor IDScan after nine people matched timestamps on their stolen scans to the day they handed a license over. The FBI's New Orleans field office says it is looking into the incident.
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IDScan.net sells the compliance layer behind age and ID checks at thousands of dispensaries and at Hertz, and Techdirt notes its trust page stayed up for days after the dark web store opened. The FBI is now asking where the images came from.
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The wheel-free car gets its production moment in Austin on Thursday, but the fleet it joins is still mostly Model Y, and the Bay Area will not let Tesla run any of it without a driver behind the wheel.
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The new Recurring hub shows dated, priced charges before they land, and a Booking.com deal hands every cardholder borrowed hotel status, both arriving while the card's move from Goldman Sachs to Chase is still roughly 17 months out.
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