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Title: An ID verification service that works with TikTok and X left its credentials wide open for a year Post by: HCK on June 29, 2024, 04:05:03 pm An ID verification service that works with TikTok and X left its credentials wide open for a year
<p>An ID verification company that works on behalf of TikTok, X and Uber, among others, has left a set of administrative credentials exposed for more than a year, <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.404media.co/id-verification-service-for-tiktok-uber-x-exposed-driver-licenses-au10tix/">as reported by 404 Media[/url]. The Israel-based AU10TIX verifies the identity of users by using pictures of their faces and drivers’ licenses, potentially opening up both to hackers.</p> <p>“My personal reading of this situation is that an ID Verification service provider was entrusted with people's identities and it failed to implement simple measures to protect people's identities and sensitive ID documents,” Mossab Hussein, the chief security officer at cybersecurity firm spiderSilk who originally noticed the exposed credentials, said.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><div id="75d3f2e8a9ee48c9a1d2acf997b2c77d"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"> |