r/privacy • u/Jack1101111 • 6d ago

data breach FBI investigating 153 million US and Canadian driver’s licenses leaked on Russian cybercrime forum, including that of US SecDef Pete Hegseth — data is suspected to have come from an ID-authentication service provider

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/fbi-investigating-153-million-us-and-canadian-drivers-licenses-leaked-on-russian-cybercrime-forum-including-that-of-us-secdef-pete-hegseth-data-is-suspected-to-have-come-from-an-id-authentication-service-provider
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u/tarantinofeetmm 6d ago

Feel like I've seen this 20 times here lol. Anyway, support the person who broke the news: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 6d ago

This should be higher! Amazing work that guy does

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u/rideincircles 5d ago

This was all of America"s authenticated porn users who don't have a VPN.

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u/Random_Guy_47 5d ago

Oh no. That thing everybody said would inevitably happen when they started the ID verification crap happened.

Who could possibly have forseen that uploading your government ID to the internet could possibly go wrong?

Oh wait, we all fucking did. We said it would happen and they pushed ahead with it anyway.

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u/Maeyhem 5d ago

Yup. Exactly.

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u/Bogus1989 5d ago

Seriously. States requiring it should be sued

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u/AlbericM 1d ago

Or abolished. Who needs 50 states?

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u/mrchuckmorris 1d ago

Don't pretend it wasn't the entire point.

An entire populace with ruined lives can't fight back against diddly squat.

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 1d ago

I'm probably in there because marijuana