In a Tom Clancy book they talked about terrorists just buying the commercial equipment used to make ID's. On Silk Road, I remember some guy claiming to sell British passports genuinely made from within the UK government.
I never got around to modifying the data on mag stripe. I just dragged a hard-drive magnet over it until it didn’t scan at all.
My takeaway from all that? The hologram that was used to strengthen the official IDs had an unintended side effect of making the fakes easier to believe.
My friends daughter bought a fake ID stating that she was over 21 but only 16 - it would scan as authentic at stores but would not pass with police.