Nexus service put up for sale 153 million driver's licenses

The Nexus service, operating in the darknet, organized a large-scale sale of data obtained as a result of the hacking of the IDScan company. The database contains information about 153 million driver's licenses of US and Canadian citizens.

Among the compromised documents, the licenses of high-ranking government officials were found. The leak includes personal data used to pass identity verification procedures in various financial and government systems. Experts note that the volume and nature of the data create serious risks for national security, allowing attackers to bypass protection systems.

The hacking of IDScan, which specializes in automated document verification, led to confidential information becoming available to buyers on shadow markets. Such incidents threaten the effectiveness of existing identification protocols based on scanning official documents.

The situation demonstrates the vulnerability of centralized databases used for user verification. The scale of the incident requires a review of approaches to storing biometric and personal data, as compromised documents can be used to create deepfakes or conduct complex social engineering attacks in the coming years.