153 million driver's license scans may be on the dark web

Think about how often you hand someone your driver's license without giving it much thought.

You rent a car, check into a business or go somewhere that needs to verify your age.

Someone scans your ID, hands it back and you move on.

A dark web service called Nexus claimed to have collected more than 153 million driver's license records from people in the United States and Canada.

It also claimed to have more than 10 million identification cards, over 3 million travel documents or international IDs and at least 579,000 medical cards.

That's a staggering amount of identity information.

There is an important caveat, though.

The 153 million figure comes from Nexus itself.

It has not been confirmed as the number of unique people affected.

Some records also contained multiple images of the same license.

Still, researchers found enough real driver's licenses in the database to get the FBI's attention.

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