FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Summary: A dark web service called Nexus launched this week selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from the United States and Canada, plus over 10 million identification cards, more than three million travel documents and at least 579,000 medical cards. KrebsOnSecurity traced the images to timestamps matching car rentals and dispensary visits, and the FBI's New Orleans field office opened an official investigation into an apparent breach at Louisiana-based identity verification company idscan.net, which scans IDs with infrared and ultraviolet light.
Key Takeaway: The service added nearly 400,000 drivers license records in 24 hours, and the records include licenses for the U.S. Defense Secretary and an FBI assistant director - state IDs that are routinely used as proof of identity to open credit.
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