Dark Web Service Selling 153 Million US and Canadian Drivers Licenses, FBI Investigating

A newly launched dark web service called Nexus is offering digital scans of over 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada, along with millions of ID cards, travel documents and medical cards. Security researcher Brian Krebs reports that the data appears to have been siphoned from a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana, and that the FBI's New Orleans field office has opened an official inquiry into the source of the leaked images.

The scale of the leak is significant: a blank search on the service reportedly returns roughly 11.5 million pages of results, with documents spanning both countries and including drivers licenses belonging to high-ranking government officials. Some records are also tagged with sources suggesting they include commercial drivers licenses and Common Access Cards, which are used to grant physical access to secure government facilities.

While the investigation is ongoing and the full scope of affected individuals and organisations is not yet clear, this incident highlights how a breach at a single identity verification provider can expose personal documents on a massive scale, well beyond the company's own customers.