critical severity February 18, 2026 · 1 min read

IDMerit AI Identity Verification MongoDB Leak — February 2026

If you have an account with IDMerit AI Identity Verification MongoDB, here’s what’s now in circulation.

A misconfigured MongoDB instance exposed identity-verification records — government IDs, selfies, biometric metadata — from AI-powered KYC vendor IDMerit.

Government ID photo with a digital crack/breach overlay

A misconfigured MongoDB instance exposed identity-verification records from the AI-powered KYC vendor IDMerit. The leaked dataset includes government ID images, selfies, and biometric metadata — the worst possible combination for identity-theft and deepfake operations.

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This is one of the most severe categories of data exposure. ID images plus selfies are the input that lets attackers bypass downstream KYC checks at financial institutions, dating apps, and any service that uses photo-ID verification. For high-profile executives and creators whose IDs were processed through IDMerit (often for crypto exchanges, fintech onboarding, or content-platform verification), the impact extends to long-term identity-fraud risk.

What to do

What You Should Do

Identify which services routed your KYC through IDMerit
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Be alert for any account that accepts ID + selfie verification — your captured images may be reused
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value redacted in this sampleage, relatives, address historySpokeo

value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified

value redacted in this sample637 companies checked

Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

verifiedvalue redacted in this samplepassword + phone · 2024telecom breach

unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

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IDMerit AI Identity Verification MongoDB is one breach. Your email is probably in others.

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Report details & sourcing

Severity Critical

Disclosed February 18, 2026

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected Identity-verification customer pool; scope undisclosed

Data exposed Government ID imagesSelfiesBiometric metadataVerification records

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Sources: Security research disclosure (Feb 2026)

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