America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster

America's Driver's License Breach is a National Security Disaster

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 driver's licenses from U.S. and Canadian citizens. This is a huge breach that not only will be used for run-of-the-mill cybercrime but also will feed the intelligence machines of America's adversaries.

Nexus claimed that it had gained unauthorized access to a major identity verification company and had spent more than a year "continuously" exfiltrating new data into a private database. Krebs on Security noted that in a single day the number of licenses in the database increased by nearly 400,000, suggesting regular ingestion of new data.