European digital identity: your data exposed to hacking?

The European Union’s digital identity wallet, designed to reduce reliance on paper documents and limit circulating copies of personal IDs, is raising security questions as users store multiple credentials on their phones. The article flags risks including hacking, phishing, and tracking, and examines which protections the framework provides versus which vulnerabilities remain. It matters because the wallet is meant to become a trusted gateway for identity verification across EU services, so any weakness could affect adoption and trust. What to watch next is how regulators and developers address the residual gaps around data exposure and surveillance before rollout scales.