FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A dark web service called Nexus is selling over 153 million stolen driver's licenses from the U.S. and Canada. The FBI has launched an investigation into the breach, which reportedly includes data from high-ranking government officials.
Why it matters
The scale of this data breach poses a massive threat to identity security and national safety, potentially compromising millions of citizens and government personnel.
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.
A record available at this identity theft service that includes the drivers license for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is one of several high-ranking U.S. government officials whose drivers licenses can be found for sale.
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