In the quiet transaction of renting a car, millions of people trusted an invisible intermediary with the most personal of documents — and that trust was broken at scale. A breach at IDScan.net, a third-party identity verification service, has exposed 153 million driver's license records, with stolen credentials surfacing on dark web markets sometimes before customers had left the rental counter. The FBI's investigation places this event in a growing reckoning with how modern commerce concentrates intimate personal data in the hands of companies most people have never heard of. It is a reminder
FBI Investigates Massive Breach Exposing 153M Driver's Licenses
Millions of individuals had their personal identification documents stolen and exposed for sale, creating identity theft and fraud risks for 153 million people.