ID verification company IDScan has confirmed a data breach involving driver’s licenses stored in its systems, more than a week after reporting first surfaced that the firm had been compromised.
In a notice on its website, IDScan said hackers stole driver’s licenses from its cloud. The stolen information includes people’s full names and driver’s license numbers, plus identity numbers from other government-issued documents such as passports. Independent reporting also described a dark-web search tool covering 150+ million U.S. and Canadian records, including ID photos.
IDScan is the quiet middleman a lot of companies use to check IDs: entertainment venues, cannabis dispensaries, and other businesses that need to verify who you are. You may never have “signed up” with IDScan. That doesn’t mean your license isn’t in their pile.
The company said it learned of a claimed hack around September 1, 2026, the same day cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported the breach. Krebs said he’d found a dark-web site that let anyone search driver’s license records for people across the U.S. and Canada, and verified the data against his own record. The FBI and Pentagon have said they are aware of / investigating the incident. IDScan says its investigation is ongoing and has not published a precise affected-person count, while noting it holds over 150 million driver’s license records.
This isn’t a password reset problem. It’s government ID, the kind of data used for identity theft, account takeovers, and fraud that sticks around for years.
Your ID didn’t need to be hacked from your wallet to end up for sale. It just needed to sit in someone else’s cloud.
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Source: TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/id-verification-giant-idscan-confirms-data-breach-with-more-than-150-million-drivers-licenses-stolen/)
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