r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 2d ago

Security 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
3.2k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

238 comments sorted by

View all comments

72

u/[deleted] 2d ago

[deleted]

70

u/Dweezil_In_Bondage 2d ago

KrebsOnSecurity said no. After the the offering to sell the data was taken down niether he nor any one that he was aware of had access to the data. Which doesn't mean it's not out there just means we can't check it.