FBI Probes Possible Breach of 153 Million Driver’s Licenses

Reporters revealed a massive trove of scanned government-issued identity documents (the “Nexus” service) allegedly containing over 153 million driver’s licenses and other IDs of mainly U.S. and Canadian residents, offered via a cybercrime forum; investigative traces linked the data to identity verification firm IDScan.net and the FBI is reported to be investigating, while experts warn the permanence of ID data creates long-term identity-fraud risk.