WASHINGTON — The FBI said on Wednesday it was investigating a report that tens of millions of drivers’ licenses belonging to people in the United States and Canada were being sold on the dark web.
The FBI is investigating a recent hack that put more than 150 million U.S. and Canadian driver's license scans for sale online. Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency joins with more.
An independent journalist published a report Tuesday that millions of licenses were available for purchase on the dark web. On Wednesday, the FBI confirmed it is investigating the claim.
An online marketplace called Nexus offered to sell digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from the U.S. and Canada, as well as travel documents and medical records.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A massive data breach at an identity verification company may have exposed the driver’s licenses and personal information of more than 153 million Americans and Canadians. A journalist who covers cybersecurity, Brian Krebs, discovered his driver’s license was being sold on the dark…
Ever hand over your license to be scanned? The FBI is investigating a major cyber threat hitting the dark web. A site is selling 153 million driver's license scans allegedly stolen from a verification company used to scan IDs.
The FBI is investigating a potential breach of an ID verification company that may have exposed scans of millions of Americans’ driver’s licenses, a bureau spokesperson told Bloomberg News on Thursday.
Independent journalist Brian Kreb said that he had discovered the site after it was advertised on a Russian cybercrime forum, with his own drivers' license being offered as a free sample.
Federal investigators are now examining a potential data breach that may have placed more than 153 million driver’s license records into the hands of criminals. According to a report from WBAL, the records appear to have come from Louisiana-based identity verification firm IDScan.
Digital scans of driver's licenses from the U.S. and Canada appeared for sale on a dark web site called Nexus, which vanished after a journalist reported on it
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