Italian digital identity provider suffers data breach, 5.5M customers affected


InfoCert has had millions of its customers’ personal data stolen and put up for sale.

A leading European certification authority and provider of digital identity services such as Italy’s SPID (Public Digital Identity System), InfoCert posted a public notice on its website detailing the data breach on December 27. However, the notice has since been taken down.

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Source: Biometric Update News


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