FBI Probes Service Selling Tens of Millions of Drivers Licenses

Brian Krebs: A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images. Mike Masnick, of Techdirt, reports the company in question is IDScan: You cannot do age or identity verification safely. It always creates some sort of record and that set of records will always become a target. That’s what happened here. And it’s what will happen with any such systems. Dan Gillmor on Bluesky: If you support “age verification” online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns —…