I rented a car, and within hours my driver's license was for sale

I rented a car, and within hours my driver's license was for sale(arstechnica.com)

43 points by chha 2 days ago | 6 comments

dang 1 day ago |

Recent and related:

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621 - Sept 2026 (273 comments)

bouke 1 day ago |

I read an article, and within seconds my personal data was shared with 229 “partners”.

pstuart 1 day ago |

This kind of inept security should be punished at a level that makes it cheaper to do it right than to pay a small percentage of their profits to continue with their assault on citizens' private info.

bsder 1 day ago | |

Until holding and losing PII (Personally Identifiable Information) is treated and punished like holding and losing radioactive waste, this will not stop.

The penalties for losing PII should be sufficiently high that even the most junior programmer should recognize the probably and immediately blanch whenever asked to write code about it.

ChrisArchitect 1 day ago |

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621

ChrisMarshallNY 1 day ago | |

Not quite a dupe. That's the original Krebs one.