SECURITYTHE VERGE
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were found accessible via public internet URLs without password protection or access controls. Examples include a German woman's passport, a Spanish man's passport, and a driver's license from another man, all available for viewing by anyone with the URLs.
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