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FIA WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP DRIVER PASSPORTS LEAKED

July 19, 2023  By Pierluigi Paganini




LE MANS ENDURANCE MANAGEMENT, OPERATING THE FIA WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP’S
WEBSITE, EXPOSED THE DATA OF HUNDREDS OF DRIVERS BY LEAKING THEIR IDS AND
DRIVERS’ LICENSES, THE CYBERNEWS RESEARCH TEAM HAS DISCOVERED.

On June 16th, our researchers came across two misconfigured, meaning publicly
exposed, Google Cloud Storage buckets. Both combined, they contained over 1.1
million files. Among them were hundreds of passports, government-issued IDs, and
drivers’ licenses belonging to FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC)
drivers.

Introduced in 2012, FIA WEC features eight endurance races across the world,
including its cornerstone stage – 24 hours at Le Mans. Hundreds of drivers and
top car brands, including Cadillac, Ferrari, and Porsche, are competing in the
prestigious race with three stages left to complete.


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FIA WEC data leak

The Cybernews research team discovered two publicly exposed storage buckets
containing 1.1 million files. Public exposure of such databases means that
anyone could easily access sensitive data and abuse it. Namely, the leaked data
included:

 * Drivers’ licenses
 * Passports
 * Government-issued IDs

The exposed documents belong to elite racers of the endurance championship. Many
are longtime participants in the race, with some having even won various stages
of the competition. In an abundance of caution, we’re choosing not to disclose
their identities.

The exposed storage buckets belong to the fiawec (.) com website, managed by Le
Mans Endurance management.

Following the correspondence with Cybernews, the exposed datasets were secured
and are not leaking data at the time of writing. However, an incident where
personal data is disclosed without authorisation is a violation of the General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Cybernews has reached out to both the company and local data protection
authority (CNIL in France) for an official comment. CNIL said it had “not
received any complaints or reports about this case,” and we’ve yet to receive a
response from the company.

What can thieves do with passports?

Whether it’s a physical document or just a digital copy, one’s passport or
driver’s license is of great value to a thief.

With such a trove of personal information, a criminal could impersonate victims,
essentially stealing their identities and running wild with them.

“They may engage in fraudulent activities, create bank accounts, apply for
loans. Furthermore, cybercriminals may attempt to acquire unauthorized access to
bank accounts or credit cards and use stolen identities to conduct fraudulent
transactions, resulting in financial loss and harm to victims’ credit scores.

Criminals might also exploit the information to craft highly personalized and
targeted attacks against the drivers whose information was exposed in the leak.

If you want to know which are recommendations for Le Mans Endurance Management
provided by CyberNews read the original post at:
https://cybernews.com/security/fiawec-data-leak/

About the author: Jurgita Lapienytė, Chief Editor at CyberNews

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon

Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, FIA World Endurance Championship)


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PIERLUIGI PAGANINI

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he
is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security
expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical
Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that
security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security
blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some
major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island,
Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security
magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency
and Bitcoin”.




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