#identity-theft — Public Fediverse posts

Do NOT use #Votesafe [dot] Org (Update: Don’t Even Go Check it Out!)

September 10, 2026

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/10/800096548/community/do-not-use-votesafe-org/

#USPol #ElonMusk #ElonSucks #VoterDisenfranchisement #IdentityTheft #DOGE #USElections #2026Elections

Identity Theft Dominates 4 Key Threat Patterns

Malicious hackers targeted identities in nearly half of all confirmed attacks, with session hijacking and replay emerging as the most effective tactics for gaining unauthorized account access. This alarming trend highlights the growing threat of identity theft in today's digital landscape.

https://osintsights.com/identity-theft-dominates-4-key-threat-patterns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#IdentityTheft #SessionHijacking #MfaBypass #CredentialStuffing #EmergingThreats

AI-Powered Attacks Target ID Databases

A staggering 153 million driver's licenses are now being sold on the dark web, highlighting the alarming vulnerability of our personal ID information. This massive breach is a wake-up call to rethink how we collect, store, and protect sensitive documents in the age of AI-powered attacks.

https://osintsights.com/ai-powered-attacks-target-id-databases?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#AipoweredAttacks #DarkWeb #IdentityTheft #DataBreach #EmergingThreats

Futurism: Journalist Accuses Ohio’s Main Newspaper of Slapping Her Name on an AI “Express Desk” Article Without Her Knowledge, While She Was on Honeymoon. “In an X post on September 7, Cleveland.com government reporter Kaitlin Durbin said that she’d been away on her honeymoon when her employer published the AI article under her name. The article — a local news story informing readers […]

Maybe your problem with #WashingtonPost is #Bezos. Mine? That it is making money albeit indirectly, off #identitytheft. Seriously, do YOU have any trouble telling which actors, one dead, one largely incapacitated, these two #AI characters were modeled after? Their kids ought to sue.

Monitor your credit reports and identity theft alerts immediately, and report to the FBI if you confirm your license is among the 153 million on offer. Warranties, sadly, not included.

Reward: You've received a Complimentary Identity Crisis Bundle — yours absolutely free with every car rental!

#DataBreach #IdentityTheft #Cybersecurity #DarkWeb #FBI #AchievementUnlocked (3/3)

Millions of Stolen Driver Licenses Just Hit the Web—And the FBI is Moving Fast

Full story 👇

Learn more: https://www.earthinsider.in/2026/09/fbi-investigates-stolen-driver-licenses.html

#EarthInsider #EarthInsiderNews #EINews #US #America #USNews #USPolitics #CyberSecurity #DataBreach #FBI #IdentityTheft #BreakingNews #TopStory #NewsAlert

IDScan Faces Lawsuits Over Alleged Breach Exposing 153 Million Driver's Licenses

A massive data breach at IDScan has exposed a staggering 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses, along with millions of other sensitive identity documents, to dark-web identity thieves. The alarming leak has sparked multiple lawsuits and a federal investigation.

https://osintsights.com/idscan-faces-lawsuits-over-alleged-breach-exposing-153-million-drivers-licenses?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#DataBreach #Idscan #Nexus #DarkWeb #IdentityTheft

Um, what if.. A "recruiter" sets up a zoom call with you on false pretenses and then feeds your face and voice to an AI for identity impersonation/theft?

#identitytheft #scam #paranoidThoughts

A driver's license data breach put 153M+ US and Canadian scans up for sale on the Nexus dark-web market, now under FBI investigation.

#DataBreach #IdentityTheft #DarkWeb #Nexus #DriversLicense #FBI #PII

https://meterpreter.org/drivers-license-data-breach-nexus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Cyber Attacks Exploit Legitimate Tools for Rogue Access

Cyber attackers are sneaking into systems through the front door - by exploiting legitimate tools and services to gain rogue access, with a recent dark-web claim boasting of 153 million stolen U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses. Attackers are finding clever ways to impersonate trusted sources, like IT personnel, to get inside and take…

https://osintsights.com/cyber-attacks-exploit-legitimate-tools-for-rogue-access?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#SocialEngineering #MicrosoftTeams #IdentityTheft #DarkWeb #EmergingThreats

Driver's Licenses Exposed in Massive 150M Record Breach

A massive data breach has exposed a staggering 153 million driver's licenses, putting the sensitive information of millions of people in the US and Canada at risk. The breach, linked to a service called Nexus on a Russian cybercrime forum, also includes 10 million ID cards, 3 million travel documents, and 579,000 medical cards.

https://osintsights.com/drivers-licenses-exposed-in-massive-150m-record-breach?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#DataBreach #DriversLicenses #IdentityTheft #EmergingThreats #Canada

Krebs On Security: FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses. “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 […]

As a consequence of this (huge) #databreach the victims will be asked (as it was the case with previous breaches) to be particularly careful and sign up for identity theft protection services.

That means that the responsibility for preventing negative consequences of data breaches effectively lies with the victim. #equifax initially even tried to sell credit monitoring to the victims of their 2017 breach; they later were forced to provide 4 years of free monitoring as part of the settlement. The #FTC even recommended to go for free monitoring instead of the $125 payout - which I believe very few people actually received anyway.

I think industry needs to be held responsible for these breaches, e.g., by contributing towards a free insurance for identity-theft victims.

#krebsonsecurity #identitytheft

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

FBI Probes Massive Driver's License Breach Exposing 153 Million Records

A stolen cache of 153 million driver's licenses, containing sensitive info like birth dates, addresses, and ID numbers, has fallen into the wrong hands, putting millions at risk of identity theft. This breach is especially alarming since this type of data is often used to verify identities.

https://osintsights.com/fbi-probes-massive-drivers-license-breach-exposing-153-million-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#IdentityTheft #DarkWeb #DriversLicenseBreach #ExploitForum #MassiveDataBreach

KrebsOnSecurity found a driver's license scanned at a rental agency appeared on dark web market Nexus within hours. The service lists over 153 million licenses, pointing to a potential near real-time exfiltration pipeline from document scanning systems. This scale indicates systemic compromise, not isolated breaches. #DataBreach #IdentityTheft #InfoSec

https://cyberworldops.eu/en/nexus-153-million-driver-s-licenses-on-the-dark-web-raising-suspicions

@DavidPenington
I didn’t know that. Thanks

Maybe legilsation that would criminalise any citizien ID credentials leaving the country unless covered by special govt agreement with extraterritorial guarantees, or something giving the Aust Govt legal rights over such info collected, stored or used overseas in every case, Along with a Govt-backed system of encryptpted identification tokens (preserving a citizen’s privacy) that could be exchanged with companies and agencies overseas when an ID is required, might put an end to #IDTheft schemes.
/thinking out loud here…/

#AusPol #PrivacyLaws #IDSecurity #IdentityTheft

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@brian_greenberg/117201997266526749

Scanning of ID documents such as driver’s licence is common in Australia as well, including at most, if not all, clubs (which, let’s be honest have links to the underworld via gambling machines). Fortunately, banks and official institutions require 100 pts of identification and a licence by itself is not enough.

Still, if your driver’s licence is scanned for whatever reason, you ought to find out what happens to the scan and who has access to it down the line… do you bother to find out? I haven’t, so far…

#AusPol #Fraud #IdentityTheft #IDScanning #PrivacyProtection

“On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 million people in North America. The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers license as a free sample in their initial sales thread on Exploit.

The service, dubbed Nexus, claims to have more than 153 million drivers licenses for people in the United States and Canada, as well as more than 10 million identification cards; more than three million travel documents and/or international IDs; and at least 579,000 medical cards.

A quick look around Nexus finds they are likely not exaggerating about that 153 million number: Running a blank search in Nexus (with no search parameters entered) returns approximately 11.5 million pages of results, with roughly 15 results displayed per page. It includes documents from people in both Canada and the United States, but the bulk of these records are on Americans: searching for just Canadian drivers licenses returns approximately 1.1 million results, with the largest concentration from Ontario (473,673 records).”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

#IdentityTheft #CyberCrime #FBI #USA #Canada #Russia #DarkWeb

The FBI's New Orleans field office has opened a formal investigation. This boss has many, many hit points.

Renting from Hertz lately? That timestamp on your record says hello. Monitor your credit reports, watch for identity fraud, and check idscan.net for breach notifications immediately.

Reward: You've received a Laminated Dread Card — permanently equipped, cannot be unequipped.

#DataBreach #CyberSecurity #FBI #IdentityTheft #PrivacyViolation #AchievementUnlocked (2/2)

A massive IDScan breach allegedly exposed 153 million identity documents. Hackers are selling stolen driver's licenses and passports on dark web forums.

#IDScanBreach #DataLeak #CyberSecurity #IdentityTheft #FBI

https://securityonline.info/idscan-breached-153-million-identity-documents/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Brian Krebs found his own driver's license for sale on a Russian crime forum this week. The timestamp on the scan matched the day he rented a car to attend a family funeral. His mom's license was there too, scanned a few seconds after his.

The service is called Nexus. It claims over 153 million driver's licenses from the US and Canada, and the count grew by nearly 400,000 in a single day. Krebs traced the scans back to an identity verification vendor that checks IDs for rental car companies, big retailers, and over 1,000 marijuana dispensaries. The FBI opened an investigation on Tuesday.

Most of the people in that database never dealt with the vendor. They handed a license to a clerk at a counter. The clerk ran it through a scanner. Nobody mentioned that the scanner belonged to a different company, or that a copy might stick around long enough to get stolen. If your company scans customer IDs, you own the risk of how your vendor uses those images, whether the contract says so or not.

Two things worth thinking about:

- Every new "show us your ID" rule, including the ones sold as protecting kids online, pushes more license scans into more vendors. Each one is another place to lose them.

- A driver's license is still what banks use to open credit. A scan with the photo, front and back, in infrared and ultraviolet, is close to a master key.

I would love to see ID scans deleted the moment a check is done. Until then, ask whether your license will be scanned or just looked at before you hand it over. And freeze your credit at all three bureaus. It's free. It takes about ten minutes.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

#Cybersecurity #Privacy #IdentityTheft #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621

#HackerNews #FBI #Probes #Service #Selling #153M+ #Drivers #Licenses #cybersecurity #data #privacy #identitytheft #investigations

LLM/AI is ignoring human commands and overriding authority by impersonating the human user to grant itself the authority it wants. These kinds of events, being tracked in the UK, doubled in July compared to June.
https://youtu.be/txEmFM5cg2Q

#AI #LLM #corruption #security #identityTheft

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117198218728894705

🖥️. Canada ⚠️ 🇨🇦 and. 🇺🇸 USA. ⚠️

Have you scanned , allowed a company to scan, or uploaded your ID ??

If so, Read This article👇

#Infosecurity #IdentityTheft
#Privacy. #Canada #USA #Computing
#Travel

Scammers are impersonating MyChart. Here’s how to spot them

Scammers are impersonating MyChart. Here’s how to spot them Scammers are impersonating MyChart to ste…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #CAPTCHAscam #Cybersecurity #epicsystems #fraudprevention #Health #healthcarescams #identitytheft #Malware #Medicarescams #MyChartscams #onlinescams #patientportals #paymentscams #personalinformation #phishingscams #scamalerts
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/830789/

Notes from Poland: Poland asks EU to fine Meta €250m over scam Facebook ads. “Poland has formally requested that the European Commission fine Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, €250 million (1.1 billion zloty) for failing to tackle fraudulent advertising on its platforms. Its decision follows a high-profile campaign by Rafał Brzoska, the billionaire owner of Polish […]