Prison Pay Tel Exposes 300K Identities
TL;DR. A security flaw at prison payphone provider Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300,000 callers' driver's licenses and personal data. - Researchers discovered a misconfigured system exposing sensitive scanned copies of identification documents. - The breach included full names, addresses, and other personally identifiable information for hundreds of thousands. - Pay Tel secured the data after notification but did not comment on the scope of the exposure or potential impact.
- A security flaw in Pay Tel's system allowed public access to scanned driver's licenses.
- Over 300,000 individuals had their personal information, including names and addresses, exposed.
- Data was secured after researchers alerted the company, but no statement on impact was issued.