Hackers publish thousands of drivers’ data after breaching Florida motor vehicle database

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The ShinyHunters hacking radical has published hundreds of thousands of files from a Florida authorities database of vehicles and operator information. The hackers said they published the stolen information connected its leak tract “because the unfortunate did not wage a ransom oregon cooperate and comply” with the hackers’ demands.

The hackers said they breached the database, known arsenic DAVID, earlier successful September and posted arsenic grounds a screenshot purporting to beryllium a grounds associated with the deceased enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had a residence successful the state.

The Florida centrifugal conveyance agency, FLHSMV, confirmed a information breach in a connection past week, and aft the hackers obtained a constabulary officer’s credentials that were stored connected a idiosyncratic device. An bureau spokesperson did not respond to TechCrunch’s petition for remark connected Wednesday astir the published data.

According to a transcript of the stolen data, which TechCrunch has seen, the hackers stole hundreds of thousands of certificates of conveyance ownership records, which contained conveyance owners’ names and addresses of buyers and sellers. The records besides contained conveyance recognition numbers.

A smaller fig of files included Social Security numbers and different government-issued documents, specified arsenic non U.S. passports and migration papers, but did not look to incorporate driver’s licenses oregon people’s photos.

The driver’s licence database breach comes successful the aforesaid period after a monster hack astatine individuality verification institution IDScan allowed hackers to bargain implicit 150 cardinal images of driver’s licenses.

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