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FBI Investigates as Hackers Sell Digital Scans of 153M Drivers Licenses
The trove also includes medical and residence cards, and criminals say they added nearly 400,000 new scans in 24 hours.
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation launched an investigation on Wednesday into Nexus, a dark web service selling digital scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses from the United States and Canada.
- Criminals behind the site claim the images originated from an active breach at a Louisiana-based identity verification company whose clients include Hertz, Target, Fedex, Motorola Solutions, Jack Henry, and Caesars Entertainment.
- KrebsOnSecurity verified the authenticity of the stolen data after finding his own license among the files, while hackers added almost 400,000 new scans within the past 24 hours.
- Online scams cost Americans almost $150 billion last year as identity theft incidents rise, with the breach also exposing additional documents including medical and residence cards.
- The FBI's investigation now focuses on identifying the specific source of these compromised documents, highlighting the irony that identity verification services—designed to prevent fraud—have become prime targets for cybercriminals.
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MASSIVE SECURITY NIGHTMARE: FBI Investigates Dark-Web Service Selling 153+ MILLION Driver’s License Scans — Including Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Information for $100 * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft
The FBI is investigating what could be one of the most devastating identity-data breaches ever uncovered in North America.
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Louisiana ID Firm Breached, Exposing 153 Million Driver’s Licenses: Report
A Louisiana identity-check company is facing an FBI probe after more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses showed up for sale on the dark web. A service called Nexus briefly sold scans of those licenses and other IDs, in a leak traced to a suspected breach at IDScan.net, reports KrebsOnSecurity. Nexus was advertised on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit. The sellers claimed they had been pulling data for more than a year. The li…
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