FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new service named Nexus has appeared on a Russian cybercrime forum, offering access to over 170 million digital scans of North American identity documents. The service claims to possess more than 153 million drivers licenses from the United States and Canada. It also boasts millions of identification cards, travel documents, and medical cards. A broad search within Nexus yielded an enormous number of results, suggesting the advertised quantity of drivers licenses is likely accurate. The majority of these records pertain to individuals in the United States. Canadian drivers licenses also constitute a significant portion, with a high concentration from Ontario. Investigations suggest the source of these compromised documents may be IDScan.net. This company is utilized by businesses such as car rental agencies and marijuana dispensaries. IDScan.net reportedly lost over 150 million ID card scans in a data breach. The compromised data includes the personal information of millions of individuals. This incident underscores a severe data security failure.