Identity Theft: Report Identity Theft
Your driver's license number might have leaked. Even if you freeze your credit, a stranger can still use your name. A stranger can buy a scan of your license. He can try to open bank accounts in your name. IDScan says someone got into its data, and licenses tied to it are reportedly for sale. Is a stranger using your name tonight? You can change a password, but not your license number.
Criminals are reportedly selling 170 million IDs. Your license could be one of them.
Biometric Update reported that someone broke into IDScan. The stolen files had people's photos, names and license numbers. Criminals buy them so they can pretend to be you.
Nearly 400,000 licenses reportedly showed up for sale in one day. Every one of those photos stays useful to a fraudster.
You can't fix a leaked license in 2 minutes. It's your face that got leaked. By the end of this, you'll know 4 steps to take.
The people behind this didn't steal it all in one night.
Businesses used IDScan to check people's IDs. Then someone got into the scans those businesses kept. By September 2026, people found out about it.
The people selling the data made a claim. They say they kept copying it for over a year.
Of those, 153 million are driver's licenses. Another 10 million are ID cards. There are even 579,000 medical cards in there.
That's just 8 months of ID checks from one company. How many places have scanned your license?
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You'd think changing your passwords would fix it. But you can't reset your own face.
In one month, he could try a bank. In 12 months, he tries phone companies. In 60 months, he applies for loans. He uses the same license every time.
Another 3 million travel documents leaked as well. Those include passports, the ones you use for trips abroad. Your passport photo could be in there, too.
Each license shows your photo and your name. The buyer gets your birthday and your license number too.
You'll be at risk for years, not days. Every credit account you have stays at risk.
You can see that reporting on your screen right now. Companies sell ID scans as a way to protect you from fraud. But now those same scans are for sale to criminals.
Your license used to prove that you're you. Now a stranger has the same proof. Every bank has to guess which one of you is real. Your license could now help him pass as you.
Freeze your credit at every major credit bureau. Freezing it is just your first step.
Set up fraud alerts on your bank accounts. Report the theft at identitytheft.gov tonight. Ask the company whether your number leaked.
When you freeze your credit, it's much harder to get a loan in your name. When you set a fraud alert, lenders have to check it's really you first.
When the leak hits, you freeze your credit first. Then you put a fraud alert on your bank account. Then you file your report at identitytheft.gov. You get a recovery plan back from the site.
CaraComp wrote about this in more depth. On that page, they compare passwords, cards and licenses.
The same reporters took one lesson from all this. When businesses scan your real card, your information isn't private enough. They say this leak strengthens the case for private digital IDs.
Be suspicious when anyone asks for a copy of your license. Read every letter you get about a data leak carefully. Ask your DMV about getting a new license.
Some people have to change their passwords every 90 days. But your license number doesn't change on its own. How long have you had that number?
Freezing your credit was never enough on its own. You should worry, but you're not helpless.
Grab your license and your laptop tonight. Do all 4 steps before you go to sleep. Save every confirmation number they give you.
Criminals are reportedly still selling those licenses. Start tonight, before he opens an account in your name.
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