NSW Transport has yet to inform more than 50,000 Australian
driver licence holders that their personal data was uploaded and
left exposed in open cloud storage.
The licences were discovered last week by a Ukranian security
consultant who stumbled across the folder, which he said was both
easily discoverable and easily downloadable from the Amazon cloud
storage where it was found.
The licences revealed personal information such as names,
photos, dates of birth and addresses of drivers, which can be used
together create false identities and commit identity fraud.
It's not clear how long the file was online, or who had
access to it, but there is potential for all of licence holders to
be affected.
