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The story
A Louisiana-based ID verification company has disclosed that unauthorized access may have exposed personal information, including driver’s license data, in a breach estimated to affect over 150 million records. Attention has focused on the fact that a company underpinning US identity-verification infrastructure was the one targeted. In a 5ch thread, speculation flew over whether an AI was behind the attack or whether a specific nation-state like China or Russia was involved, with commenters repeatedly — and half-seriously — recommending a return to pen and paper, or even fax machines.
US: Over 150 million records of information such as driver’s licenses may have leaked
Amid a string of incidents involving unauthorized access to companies, a case has also come to light in the US in which unauthorized access exposed information such as individuals’ driver’s licenses.
A company headquartered in the southern US state of Louisiana that provides ID verification services announced last month that certain data may have been accessed without authorization.
Source: news.web.nhk / Original article here
What people said
Let's just stop.
Yeah, I guess if it's not labeled "SI," it counts as the enemy (SI presumably = "super intelligence," as opposed to AI).
The ones using it are raking in huge profits
If we stop, the gap will only widen — it'll turn into open season.
got hit all at once across the whole world?
So that means Chinese AI > American AI?
Re: #8
So China and Russia are taking over the world?
Even if they got breached too, they'd probably never admit it.
If they really weren't hit, that just means the West is incompetent
This kind of thing is an ongoing attack war anyway.
If you just don't report the leak, it's as if nothing happened!
Even scraping personal data from the whole world like this, there's no way you could ever use it all.
The Battle of NEWoMan (wordplay on "new man"/"new human" — NEWoMan is a shopping complex at Shinjuku Station).
Guess we'd better switch back to fax.
A comeback for white-collar workers, I guess.
When it comes to mining power, China and Russia are already the top two.
Like Bitcoin mining or something?
I'll go install Kaspersky, just in case.
You mean Western weapons are going to become useless?
You mean the West is collapsing?
"Meanwhile, Russia just used a pencil"
— turns out that joke was right all along.
Japan's Ministry of Defense has been riddled with bugging devices since way before AI was even a thing, lol
Guess they're only defending their submarine tech to the death 👍
Didn't the Self-Defense Forces also get infected via a USB drive and leak stuff not long ago?
Japan's got problems way more basic than AI.
That's about the US Department of Defense, isn't it — the one where their HR data center stored personal info in plain text and leaked about 3 million people's records.
I wonder how the Minister for Cybersecurity is doing these days
Sakurada, wasn't it?
I wonder how the Minister for Cybersecurity is doing these days
Sakurada, wasn't it?
Background and Key Points of This Story
Companies that provide identity-verification services typically hold, all in one place, exactly the kind of information used to confirm someone’s identity — driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, and the like — which makes them an attractive target: a single successful intrusion can hand attackers a massive trove of personal data at once. The original article never explicitly states that this was an AI-driven attack, but it’s worth noting that theories like “an AI gone rogue” or “maybe it was a Chinese AI” spread independently within the thread. It’s also worth flagging that the leak of roughly 3 million people’s personnel records from the US Department of Defense, mentioned in some replies, is a separate, earlier incident unrelated to this case involving a private company, and shouldn’t be confused with it. Attacks on companies that handle identity verification expose a structural problem that’s hard for ordinary consumers to defend against: a breach at just one company can ripple outward to affect identity checks across multiple fronts, from driver’s licenses to Social Security numbers.
*This article was compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Breaking] US: Over 150 Million Records of Information Such as Driver’s Licenses May Have Leaked Due to Unauthorized Access.”
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