Content overview: “EU's New Age-Verification App Breached in Minutes, Exposing Security Flaws | Nova Global N”. The European Union's new Digital Identity Wallet app, designed for age verification and secure digital credentials, has been found to be vulnerable to a ha... The European Union's new Digital Identity Wallet app, designed for age verification and secure digital credentials, has been found to be vulnerable to a hack that takes just two minutes to execute. Security researchers demonstrated how a flaw in the app's data packet manipulation allows users to falsely present as being of legal age to integrated online services.
This critical vulnerability threatens the EU's ambitious Digital Decade strategy, potentially eroding trust in the system and hindering its adoption. The incident occurs amidst a backdrop of widespread data breaches affecting gym chains and hotel giants, and a DDoS attack on Bluesky, highlighting a growing global cybersecurity crisis. This listing links straight to the original page, where the content is available in full.