Estonia freezes resident ID cards due to security flaw
https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/04/estonia-freezes-resident-id-cards-security-flaw/
Estonia's residents use their mandatory national IDs to access
pretty much anything, from online banking to online voting.
So, it was a huge blow to the program when experts found a
security flaw in the IDs' chip that makes it easy for bad
players to impersonate and steal the identities of all 760,000
affected individuals. That might not sound like a huge number,
but that's half the small country's population. Now, the
country has blocked most of its residents from accessing all
its online services for a weekend, so it can go in and and fix
the vulnerability. All ID cards issued from the beginning of
the program in October 2014 to October 25th, 2017 will be
frozen until their owners apply for updated certificates with
the fix. They can do that online, but the online service kept
crashing over the past week, leading people to flock to police
stations and other government offices to get their IDs
updated. For now, only medical professionals and the most
frequent users will be able to apply for updated certificates
online, but Estonia will open up the system to the public
again on Monday.
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