NSW Transport is yet to alert up to tens of thousands of people whose full driver’s licence details were mistakenly left exposed in an open cloud storage.
Key points:
- Transport for NSW said it is working with Cyber Security NSW to investigate the issue
- The documents feature scans of licences which reveal information such as names and addresses
- Experts say the data could be misused for identity theft purposes
The cache was discovered last week by Ukrainian security consultant Bob Diachenko who stumbled upon the directory while investigating another data breach.
The storage folder, which he said was easily discoverable, contained back-and-front scans of NSW licences alongside tolling notices hosted on Amazon’s cloud service.
The documents revealed names, photos, dates of birth and ad...
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