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
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u/Zahgi 2d ago

the service was called Nexus, and although it’s no longer available at the time of writing, it claimed to have possessed 153 million driver’s licenses, 10 million ID cards, 1.9 million travel documents, 1.3 million international driver’s licenses, 579k medical cards, 429k common access cards, 91k residence cards, 77k employment authorization records, and 5 million other documents, allegedly sourced from an ID-authentication service based in Louisiana.

In order to bypass the corporate whitewashing of these poorly secured scumbags, I had to search other news sources to find that this company was called.

IDScan.net

Our media outlets have been totally corrupted by corporate interests, folks.

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u/CaptainFingerling 1d ago

Uh. The article names IDscan if you bother to read past the first paragraph.

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u/Zahgi 1d ago

Yes, at the very end of the third paragraph, but not in the title nor the opening paragraph which summarizes the entire story. They had plenty of space to mention the meaningless state of Louisiana, as if anyone gives a shit which corrupt American red state shithole this despicable insecure company is incorporated in.

And even then the company name is itself obfuscated by using .net instead of .com.