Important change in ID cards. It affects 6 million Poles
It turns out that mIDs, which were supposed to make us safer, were not that secure. All because of the application associated with them. The Ministry of Digitization has just found out and claims that the problem has already been solved. Where was the problem?
Changes were introduced in the so-called mWeb Verifier, which could be used at service points, clinics, schools, trains or buses. This is an application that based on a QR code scanned by the mObywatel application, it allowed access to our confidential data. However, it turned out that, in the opinion of the Ministry of Digital Affairs, it was not as safe as it could have been.
As written in the announcement of the Ministry of Digitization, the data now hidden in mWerfiker include: PESEL number, mother's name, father's name, mID series and number. This is quite a large scope of data that it allows impersonating other people. Now this data is to be at least partially covered by asteriskswhich is intended to improve our security.
Data in mWerifier will be hidden
Of course, you can still simply show your document with data in the mObywatel application to the person who wants to confirm it. The Ministry also reassures us that in the case of the mWerownik application, sensitive information about us is not saved on other people's devices and is only displayed on it for a short time. But they still appear there. It's good that now they are at least a little hidden.
What is most intriguing is that the mWerujemy web application itself has been available for some time. As the cashless.pl portal points out, The Ministry does not want to talk about the reasons for introducing the change that hides some of our data. However, previous settings may have led to this easier theft of personal data. But the changes are not “final”.
The information from the Ministry itself indicates that it is probably the case you can still access full information about people using mIDs, but only after successful verification and establishing cooperation with the Central IT Center.
Poles already have over 6 million mEvidence
And perhaps even more. In any case, this number was announced by the Ministry of Digital Affairs on its official profile on website X in February this year. He swore then that the concept of the document in the application would be constantly developed, and here we see the result. It remains an open question whether a specific vulnerability was found in the system that the authorities do not want to talk about.
