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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

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Summary

KrebsOnSecurity reports that Nexus, a dark‑web service, is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from the US and Canada, likely sourced from idscan.net. The FBI's New Orleans field office has opened an official inquiry into the data source. The piece highlights privacy and security risks of third‑party identity verification vendors and notes that the data set includes licenses from numerous individuals with timestamps indicating recent travel.

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