Reintroducing Scanlab (a.k.a Scamlab)
Summary: A service called Scanlab advertises forged scanned documents - credit cards, passports, drivers licenses, utility bills, birth/death/marriage certificates and diplomas - drawn from a 17 GB template database covering more than 120 countries, and it reappeared this summer after vanishing following Brian Krebs's August 2008 coverage. The site does not accept credit cards and takes payment through WebMoney, a virtual currency popular in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Key Takeaway: Any online service that treats a scanned passport, utility bill or diploma as proof of identity is accepting a document that a fee-paying service can reproduce from templates spanning 120 countries - and the original Scanlab came back on the same domain after two years.
Read the original at Krebs on Security ↗
- Topics
- Data Breaches
- Related
- TSMC employee data breach linked to cloud provider Cyber Risks · Nov 15, 2026Data Breach at La Poste Subsidiary Maileva Affects 22 Million People in France Cyber Risks · Nov 15, 2026City of Osaka warns of data breach impacting 1 million as Japan reels from dozens of cyber incidents Cyber Risks · Nov 13, 2026