FBI Investigates Possible Breach of 153 Million Driver's Licenses Data

The FBI is investigating a potentially massive breach of identity data that may have swept up the details of as many as 170 million North Americans, with over 153 million driver's licenses for mainly American and Canadian drivers being targeted. The breach was allegedly carried out by an active breach at "a major identity verification company" which offered access to digital scans of identity documents through a service called Nexus on the Exploit Russian cybercrime forum. This data includes owner's date of birth, address, physical descriptors, and government-issued ID numbers, enough to pass identity verification checks that most financial institutions and government agencies still treat as reliable.