Hacked off

[Slow.Patrol]

It seems that the Home Office has been hacked although, this was in October, we are only finding out now.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15399977/...

[Jasandjules]

Don't worry your entire life in a Digital ID will never be hacked. No sir... And it sure won't be sold, nope, 800m Indians know just how secure this is.

[Slow.Patrol]

Jasandjules said:

Don't worry your entire life in a Digital ID will never be hacked. No sir... And it sure won't be sold, nope, 800m Indians know just how secure this is.

Indeed.

No wonder they wanted it kept quiet.

[mike9009]

Fake news

[AbbeyNormal]

Jasandjules said:

Don't worry your entire life in a Digital ID will never be hacked. No sir... And it sure won't be sold, nope, 800m Indians know just how secure this is.

Got a passport or driving licence. Thats a digital id. Has it been hacked?

Clutch those pearls

[PurplePenguin]

AbbeyNormal said:

Jasandjules said:

Don't worry your entire life in a Digital ID will never be hacked. No sir... And it sure won't be sold, nope, 800m Indians know just how secure this is.

Got a passport or driving licence. Thats a digital id. Has it been hacked?

Clutch those pearls

You what mate? My driving licence and passport are physical surely?

[abzmike]

PurplePenguin said:

AbbeyNormal said:

Jasandjules said:

Don't worry your entire life in a Digital ID will never be hacked. No sir... And it sure won't be sold, nope, 800m Indians know just how secure this is.

Got a passport or driving licence. Thats a digital id. Has it been hacked?

Clutch those pearls

You what mate? My driving licence and passport are physical surely?

The government and umpteen public and private organisations already have more information online than you know about yourself.

[Hill92]

abzmike said:

PurplePenguin said:

AbbeyNormal said:

Jasandjules said:

Don't worry your entire life in a Digital ID will never be hacked. No sir... And it sure won't be sold, nope, 800m Indians know just how secure this is.

Got a passport or driving licence. Thats a digital id. Has it been hacked?

Clutch those pearls

You what mate? My driving licence and passport are physical surely?

The government and umpteen public and private organisations already have more information online than you know about yourself.

Indeed. The DVLA have had a digital database of vehicle registrations and driving licences since 1974 while the Passport Office was computerised about 35 years ago. Both databases contain more information about you than is shown on your physical licence or passport.

Then there's the Police National Computer, NHS medical records, school qualifications, employment records, tax records, MOD service records...

[Slow.Patrol]

PurplePenguin said:

You what mate? My driving licence and passport are physical surely?

Twice this year I have used my phone to scan the biometric chip on the front of my passport. Just by placing the phone on my passport.

Once to confirm my ID as a Director on Companies House and to apply for a US Visa.

Somewhere the information from that chip is being held on a database.

[Evercross]

AbbeyNormal said:

Got a passport or driving licence. Thats a digital id. Has it been hacked?

The potential for it to be hacked is almost certainly there, and if it has we most likely wouldn't know because it would end a government if it became publicly known that it happened on their watch, and the majority of hackers prefer not to tell the world when they have managed to infiltrate systems as it alerts the owners who will then harden them.

That isn't conspiracy theory BTW.

[Gecko1978]

AbbeyNormal said:

Jasandjules said:

Don't worry your entire life in a Digital ID will never be hacked. No sir... And it sure won't be sold, nope, 800m Indians know just how secure this is.

Got a passport or driving licence. Thats a digital id. Has it been hacked?

Clutch those pearls

How would we know they don't tell us till months later of at all. Back at you clutch those pearls

[XCP]

Hill92 said:

Indeed. The DVLA have had a digital database of vehicle registrations and driving licences since 1974 while the Passport Office was computerised about 35 years ago. Both databases contain more information about you than is shown on your physical licence or passport.

Then there's the Police National Computer, NHS medical records, school qualifications, employment records, tax records, MOD service records...

Well I am not on PNC.
NHS records probably.
School quals....doubtful mid 70's
Employment....no secret.
Tax...yep, but hardly secret.
MOD service....None.

I feel really boring.

[JoshSm]

Slow.Patrol said:

Somewhere the information from that chip is being held on a database.

You can read all the information out of the chip yourself if you want to see what's there, it isn't much.

The bigger risk with these database hacks isn't the ID, it's all the other linked data whether that's documentation for a visa application or your Pornhub preferences or whatever else is connected.