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Sergio Villegas

Senior Managing Analyst on Bishop Fox's Attack Surface Intelligence team and host of the Initial Access podcast.

Oct 9, 2026

14:16
Mm-hmm.
14:16
"So I need to scan the fingerprints to make sure you are who you say r- you are." And they connect to these national ID agencies and, and be like, "Okay, I have Sergio legally," right? "Is this him?" And, and they confirm it, right? So it's, it's kind of a good thing to have this, uh, I mean, good thing, you know, privacy and stuff.
14:37
I, I don't want to get into that.
14:39
Uh, but it's, it's, uh, it's, uh, kind of a good thing that you have these type of systems to verify id- identities.
14:47
Uh, but because of their nature, you have several connections to other agencies.
14:51
So yeah, they got an abuse through that.
14:54
Uh, something that wasn't disclosed, but, uh, my hypothesis is that, uh, this third party was compromised, and they leveraged that trust connection to pull all of the data, right?

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30:33
[laughs]

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