Florida DMV breach linked to international cybercrime group amid massive license leak
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said a data breach was tied to an international cybercrime organization, marking the second driver-license hack reported this month, and disclosed the incident on 11 September. Earlier in September, the FBI announced it had opened an investigation after a dark-web marketplace began selling digital copies of more than 153 million driver’s licenses from the United States and Canada. A cybercrime forum later advertised a service offering over 170 million scanned identity documents, including a license belonging to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, prompting the same investigation.
Ars Technica reported that a new service called Nexus was providing high-resolution scans allegedly harvested from a car-rental scanning provider. Subsequent reports said four class-action lawsuits were filed in Louisiana against IDScan. net, alleging the company’s breach exposed the same data, and the firm said an unauthorized party may have accessed customer names and government ID numbers in its cloud system, offering free credit-monitoring services to affected individuals.
