Identity verification company IDScan has confirmed that hackers accessed customer data stored in its cloud platform, days after reports linked the company to a massive database containing more than 153 million driver's license scans.

Digital scans of driver's licenses from the U.S. and Canada appeared for sale on a dark web site called Nexus, which vanished after a journalist reported on it

Privacy-preserving identity verification systems could allow individuals to prove only what a service needs to know while keeping the underlying information under their control,…