153 million stolen driver's license scans expose a growing ID problem

More than 150 million driver's license scans were up for purchase on the dark web, highlighting the risk you take every time you hand over your physical ID. Digital IDs could potentially limit some data breaches, but not until adoption becomes near universal Recently, a dark web platform known as Nexus claimed to be selling more than 153 million driver's license scans. In addition to the driver's licenses, there were more than 10 million ID cards, 3 million travel documents and international IDs