If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.

https://lemmy.ml/post/43495940

If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. - Lemmy

Lemmy

They should publish the names of the companies which datasets have been involved. NOW.
the name of the company is known. it’s IDMERIT: www.idmerit.com
Global Identity Verification Solutions Provider via API | IDMERIT

IDMERIT is a global leading digital identity verification solutions provider and provides an API for quick identity check for financial and non-financial businesses.

IDMERIT
Yes, but the point is that they seem to have data for or on behalf of a load of different companies, probably in the telco department.
Other companies outsource their KYC compliance to them.
Exactly. And this is the list of company names we need.