--- title: FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses –... description: A new dark web service called Nexus is selling digital scans of over 153 million U.S. and Canadian drivers licenses, plus millions of other ID documents,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses-krebs-on-security-bmalidm3f twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security | daily.dev og:description: A new dark web service called Nexus is selling digital scans of over 153 million U.S. and Canadian drivers licenses, plus millions of other ID documents,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses-krebs-on-security-bmalidm3f og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BMAlIDM3f.png og:image:alt: FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security **[Krebs on Security](https://daily.dev/sources/krebsonsecurity)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new dark web service called Nexus is selling digital scans of over 153 million U.S. and Canadian drivers licenses, plus millions of other ID documents, apparently sourced from an ongoing breach at Louisiana-based identity verification company idscan.net, whose clients include Hertz, Target, FedEx, and Planet13 dispensaries. Investigation by Krebs on Security, involving timestamp analysis on multiple victims' license images, traced the leak to idscan.net's infrared/ultraviolet ID-scanning systems used at rental car counters and dispensaries. The FBI's New Orleans field office has opened an official investigation, and idscan.net says it is looking into the matter but has not issued a substantive statement. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the Nexus dark web service and how many drivers licenses does it claim to have? Nexus is an identity theft service advertised on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit that sells digital scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian drivers licenses, over 10 million identification cards, more than 3 million travel documents or international IDs, and at least 579,000 medical cards. Search results suggest the numbers are not exaggerated, with roughly 11.5 million pages of results returned from a blank search. _Security teams tracking large-scale identity data breaches can follow verified reporting on daily.dev._ ### Which identity verification company is suspected as the source of the Nexus drivers license breach? idscan.net, a Louisiana-based identity verification company, is suspected as the source after victims' timestamped license scans matched interactions with companies using its services, including Hertz car rentals and Planet13 marijuana dispensaries. Idscan.net processes over 21 million verifications monthly at more than 20,000 locations and counts Hertz, Target, FedEx, Motorola Solutions, Jack Henry, and Caesars Entertainment among its clients. _Developers evaluating third-party identity verification vendors can weigh incidents like this on daily.dev._ ### How did researchers confirm that Hertz rental car transactions were a source of the leaked drivers license images? Multiple victims, including the journalist and his mother, confirmed that the only place they handed over their physical drivers license around the timestamp of their leaked scan was a Hertz rental car counter, with timestamps just seconds apart matching simultaneous document handovers. Another victim's leak matched a period of renting from Hertz with no recent air travel, reinforcing the rental car scanning process as a probable exposure point. _Anyone auditing where their ID gets scanned during travel can dig into cases like this via daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#cyber](https://daily.dev/tags/cyber), [#data-breach](https://daily.dev/tags/data-breach), [#identity-verification](https://daily.dev/tags/identity-verification) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses-krebs-on-security-bmalidm3f) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses-krebs-on-security-bmalidm3f","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses-krebs-on-security-bmalidm3f"},"datePublished":"2026-09-01T22:54:19.911Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:39:05.904Z","description":"A new dark web service called Nexus is selling digital scans of over 153 million U.S. and Canadian drivers licenses, plus millions of other ID documents,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7885fbf32a8a902b803d132a2ac69077?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7885fbf32a8a902b803d132a2ac69077?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Krebs on Security","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Krebs on Security","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/deb3e417ddef4d0e8cc4d704becf6004","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/krebsonsecurity"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses-krebs-on-security-bmalidm3f","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"security,cyber,data-breach,identity-verification","timeRequired":"PT9M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Krebs on Security","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/krebsonsecurity"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses-krebs-on-security-bmalidm3f#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is the Nexus dark web service and how many drivers licenses does it claim to have?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Nexus is an identity theft service advertised on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit that sells digital scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian drivers licenses, over 10 million identification cards, more than 3 million travel documents or international IDs, and at least 579,000 medical cards. 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