After a major breach involving 153 million driver’s licenses and an open want-to-buy message to the person who listed it for sale, it’s not surprising that when ShinyHunters added the Florida DMV to its leak site, people may have assumed the data came from that breach. But according to ShinyHunters, the Florida DMV breach was unrelated. CSO reports:
ShinyHunters is claiming to have broken into a Florida government database containing sensitive information on the state’s drivers.
The notorious extortion group said it has breached the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Driver and Vehicle Information Database (DAVID) and claims to have stolen more than 200,000 records.
As evidence, the attackers published a screenshot of a record belonging to Jeffrey Epstein that showed sensitive information, including an address, Social Security number, date of birth, driver’s license number, and registered vehicles.
Read more at CSO.
Although ShinyHunters provided an explanation for how they allegedly acquired the data, some professionals have questioned the veracity of the claims, noting that Florida routinely sells DMV data in bulk.
