Nexus Dark-Web Service Sells 153 Million Driver’s License Scans

A newly launched dark-web identity-theft service, Nexus, is offering scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses alongside millions of other identity documents. The operators claim to have continuously exfiltrated records from a major identity-verification provider for more than a year, and its inventory reportedly increased by nearly 400,000 license records within 24 hours. The listings include front-and-back document scans, including infrared and ultraviolet image formats.

Victim accounts and image timestamp correlations tied records to identity checks at travel locations, car-rental agencies, and marijuana dispensaries, pointing to Louisiana-based identity-verification provider idscan.net as a possible source; the attribution has not been conclusively confirmed. The FBI’s New Orleans field office opened an investigation into the apparent compromise, while idscan.net said it was investigating without providing substantive public details. The exposure creates risks of identity and new-account fraud, biometric misuse, stalking, and physical harm, particularly for government personnel and people seeking to protect their identity or location.