A dark web shop, 153 million driver's licence scans, an FBI investigation, and the scanner at your front desk.

What was found. On 1 September, KrebsOnSecurity reported a dark web service called "Nexus" advertising more than 153 million US and Canadian driver's licence scans, plus 10 million+ ID cards, 3 million+ travel documents and 579,000+ medical cards. Records contained six images per document — front and back in normal, infrared and ultraviolet light — with date and time stamps. The listing appeared on a Russian-language forum on 31 August. The FBI's New Orleans field office opened an investigation the day Krebs published and confirmed it publicly to Reuters on 2 September. The Nexus site went offline hours after publication. Four class actions were filed on 2 September in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. ...