The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info ever

Re:The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info... by ceejayoz on Friday September 08, 2017 @11:21AM (#15200875)

Yeesh.

> Please provide proof of identification, such as a copy of your driver's license, passport, birth certificate or other proper identification forms.

Given that the hack included name, SSN, date of birth, and address, a fake copy of one of these should be incredibly easy to generate.

edit: Driver's license numbers were also leaked in some cases. Fun.

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Re:The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info... by 3JPLW on Friday September 08, 2017 @11:35AM (#15201000)

Even worse: In a number of states, the DL number is deterministic based upon name and DOB.

http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/dl_us_shared.html

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Re:The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info... by ConceptJunkie on Friday September 08, 2017 @12:14PM (#15201445)

I don't know if it's still the case, but Virginia used to your SSN as an ID. There was an opt-out for that, which I exercised about 25-30 years ago, so I don't know if that policy is still in place.

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