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Scott Younker

Over 150 million driver's licenses stolen in massive data breach after hackers reportedly hit major identity verificationcompany — what to do now

Drivers licenses from different states.

In what has to be one of the biggest data breaches to date, a security researcher discovered a hacker who appeared to be selling access to a database of over 153 million driver's licenses from the United States and Canada, including IDs for Pete Hegseth, the current U.S. Defense Secretary (the Defense Department is reportedly aware and investigating).

The breach was spotted by security journalist Brian Krebs in a report claiming that the hacker created a site called Nexus and claimed to have access to digital scans of 153,347,439 identity cards.

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