If you have handed over your driver’s license, passport, or other form of identity document to verify your information in the real world, like at a bar, a weed store, or when booking a car rental, there’s a good chance it’s now been stolen in a suspected massive data breach. That’s according to a jaw-dropping report by independent security journalist Brian Krebs, who says a company used to verify government-issued identity documents in the real world was likely hacked an…
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