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At least eight federal lawsuits have been filed against IDScan.net in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana since September 2, 2026, after a dark-web marketplace called Nexus began advertising searchable access to more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses traced back to the New Orleans-based identity-verification firm. The wave…

A dark-web marketplace called Nexus spent late August advertising something cybercrime forums rarely traffic in at this scale: not passwords, not credit card numbers, but forensic-grade scans of the physical identity documents that get you a hotel room, a rental car, or a legal cannabis purchase. By the time Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity finished tracing…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A massive data breach at an identity verification company may have exposed the driver’s licenses and personal information of more than 153 million Americans and Canadians.

A new dark web platform called Nexus claimed to be selling 153 million driver’s license scans and millions of other identity and medical cards.