153 Million Driver's Licenses Reportedly Leaked in Massive Breach
A newly discovered dark web site is offering what it claims is data from 153 million driver's licenses, apparently sourced from car rental companies or a shared vendor in that industry. One reporter found their own license for sale just hours after renting a vehicle, suggesting the breach is active and data is flowing to the marketplace in near real time rather than from a single stale dump.
The FBI is said to be investigating, though it's unclear yet which company or companies were compromised, how the attackers got in, or how long the exposure has been ongoing. The scale, if confirmed, would make this one of the larger identity-document leaks in recent memory.
Driver's license scans are especially valuable to fraudsters because they combine a photo, address, license number, and birth date, enough to pass many identity checks used for account takeovers, fraudulent loans, or fake IDs.