FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Brian Krebs, reporting at KrebsOnSecurity: On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 million people in North America. The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers…
On Monday, a source informed KrebsOnSecurity about a new service on Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents of over 170 million individuals in North America. The founder of this identity theft service, known as Nexus, offered the reporter's Virginia drivers license as a complimentary sample.
Nexus allegedly boasts more than 153 million drivers licenses from the United States and Canada, more than 10 million identification cards, over three million travel documents and/or international IDs, and at least 579,000 medical cards. An examination of Nexus seems to confirm this staggering 153 million figure, with a blank search returning around 11.5 million pages of results, with roughly 15 displayed per page.
The majority of these records are for Americans, although Canadian drivers licenses account for approximately 1.1 million entries, primarily from Ontario. The source of this information was traced to IDScan.net, a platform used by car rental agencies like Hertz and marijuana dispensaries, which was reportedly breached, losing over 150 million ID card scans.
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