Overview
- The extortion group ShinyHunters posted a screenshot it said came from Florida’s DAVID system and claimed it stole records for more than 200,000 people.
- ShinyHunters told reporters it used a password-reset weakness to hijack employee accounts and said the flaw is being patched and it no longer has access.
- Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles declined to comment on Sept. 10 and has not provided public guidance for potentially affected residents.
- On Friday the agency acknowledged a breach and said its investigation points to a compromised police account stored on a personal device and that the incident was mitigated.
- Security reporters and local coverage link the claim to a larger dark-web set of 153 million driver records tied to a Louisiana identity-verification vendor that the FBI is investigating, leaving uncertainty about how many Floridians are exposed and what protections they will receive.