Executive Summary

A new dark‑web marketplace is offering scanned copies of over 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver licenses. The images appear to have been harvested from a Louisiana‑based identity‑verification firm. The FBI’s New Orleans field office has opened an inquiry into the source of the stolen documents.

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Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: Krebs on Security - Published Date: 2026-09-01T22:40:28+00:00 - Category: threat-intel

Original Description: A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to...

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