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153 million U.S. drivers’ licenses were hacked and put up for sale on the Dark Web. That’s more than half of all licensed drivers. How that happened and what it says about who’s doing what with our data.

Last week, Krebs On Security broke the story of a newly launched dark web service calling itself Nexus that was selling access to identity documents, including 3 million travel documents and 153 million drivers licences from U.S. and Canadian citizens. This is a huge breach that will not only be used for run-of-the-mill cybercrime, but…

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If you’ve used your driver’s license to verify your information either in the real world or online, there’s a chance that some of your driver’s license information was stolen by hackers in a security breach against the ID verification giant IDScan that was reportedly active for a year.

IDScan.net is a cloud-based identity-verification platform that businesses use to confirm age, identity, and compliance status. The company disclosed a data security incident in which an unauthorized third party may have accessed and copied customer information stored in its cloud environment.

A person’s driver’s license is supposed to be proof of who they are. Now, according to a new investigation, someone is allegedly selling millions of those IDs on the dark web. A cybercrime service called Nexus reportedly claimed to have access to 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses, along with millions of other identification…

The FBI is investigating an alleged data breach that has put millions of Americans’ driver’s licenses and other identification documents up for sale on the dark web

Not long ago, I rented an SUV from a well-known car rental company. Within hours of an employee scanning my driver’s license, a high-resolution scan of my ID was available for sale on the dark web.

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.

The FBI is reportedly investigating a potentially massive breach of identity data that may have swept up the details of as many as 170 million North Americans.