If you have handed over your driver's license, passport, or other form of identity document to verify your information in the real world, like at a bar, a weed store, or when booking a car rental, there's a good chance it's now been stolen in a suspected massive data breach. That's according to a jaw-dropping report by independent security journalist Brian Krebs, who says a company used to verify government-issued identity documents in the real world was likely hacked and its vast stores of people's ID cards were exfiltrated. Krebs reports that an identity theft site called Nexus, which launched on the dark web this week, claimed to allow users to search through more than 150 million driver's licenses and passports belonging to people who live in the United States and Canada. A post advertising the site on a known Russian cybercrime forum said Nexus added about half a million new documents daily, sourced from a 'major identity verification company,' implying that the hackers had...
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