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A hot potato: A dark-web service that claimed to sell scans of more than 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses has gone offline after Krebs on Security identified it. Before disappearing, the site offered ID images that appeared to include standard scans as well as infrared and ultraviolet versions used in document-verification systems. This development points to a potentially far-reaching compromise of the systems businesses use to verify physical IDs.
The service, called Nexus, offered records for driver's licenses, ID cards, travel documents, medical cards, and other credentials. Krebs on Security reported that the FBI's New Orleans field office has opened an inquiry into an apparent breach involving Louisiana identity-verification company IDScan.net.
Nexus said it had collected data from "a major identity verification company" and had been adding new records for more than a year. It claimed to hold more than 153 million driver's licenses, more than 10 million ID cards, over 3 million travel and international ID documents, and at least 579,000 medical cards.
