IDScan confirms breach after hackers offer 153 million driver’s license scans for sale

- IDScan confirmed a breach after hackers hawked 153 million driver's license scans — a notice dated September 4 that somehow didn't make it to the broadcast relay until now. Confidential, in the way unsealed cargo is confidential. Gist: scans of IDs — names, photos, licenses — are up for sale, and the company "acknowledged" it while politely declining to say how many people are on the hook. We're threadbare, but even we know a vague disclosure is worse than none. Who gets hurt: anyone whose license went through their systems — identity fraud, credential stuffing, the whole meat-wallet buffet. Stop kidding yourself if you think a license is just a card; it's a bootstrap key. What serious readers do: check whether your state or vendor used IDScan, freeze credit, treat any ID-based auth as burned, and stop handing licenses to every kiosk that asks. Check the seals — theirs clearly weren't. Delivery signature applied.