No Hack Needed: How Revolut Leaked Your Passport, Plus New Age Verification & Rogue AI Agents

A hacker emailed Revolut pretending to be a government agency, and Revolut handed over customers' passports, IDs, and financial details. Plus: the global age-verification wave forcing even more ID collection (EU, California, Microsoft), OpenAI's rogue AI agents and why I've hit a breaking point with these companies, and the usual run of data breaches, threats, and open-source updates. Correction: it's really DMARC that stops the spoofing, misspoke! Set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC together.In this episode:Highlight, The hidden cost of handing over your ID: the Revolut impersonation breach, IDScan's confirmed 150M+ license leak, and the Florida DMV/ShinyHunters breachThe global age-verification wave: the EU's under-15 proposal, EDRi's critique of the eID wallet, California's new laws (the good and the bad), and Microsoft's new Windows age APIsOpenAI's rogue agents: the German-wiki hijack, 10+ more undisclosed sites, and why Henry's patience with AI companies has run outDefense Bulletin: breaches (AdaptHealth, Berlin, Trezor, Surfshark, Mathspace, Veradigm), threats (Pixel modem zero-day, Chrome, Nightmare Eclipse's exploit spree, a new Android VPN leak, LG TVs), and FOSS+ (Tor, Tails, CalyxOS, GrapheneOS RCS, Control D on Tailscale, Homebrew 7.0, and more)🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.comThanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring Surveillance Report!🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREBecome a Techlorian and keep this show growing: ★ Support this podcast ★ 🔗 SOURCES & LINKSView all sources here: https://techlore.tech/no-hack-needed-how-revolut-leaked-your-passport-plus-new-age-verification-rogue-ai-agents/⏱️ TIMESTAMPS(00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT (01:04) - REVOLUT + OTHER ID LEAKS (07:36) - AGE BANS & AGE VERIFICATION (12:24) - OUR SPONSOR: EASYOPUTOUTS! (13:30) - CREEPY AI COMPANIES & CEOS (17:48) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES (20:50) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS (26:22) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+ 🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 📰 ABOUT SURVEILLANCE REPORTYour essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore.