Data was continuously exfiltrated from IDScan.net for over a year
Assessment
The statement is the Nexus seller's, quoted by Krebs from the Exploit post: "We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database." Two observations are consistent with it: Krebs's own licence carries a June 2025 timestamp, and the inventory grew by roughly 400,000 records during the 24 hours before publication. Neither establishes when access began. IDScan.net's notice says it "received information" on or around 1 September 2026 and gives no intrusion date. The claim is plausible and unconfirmed by the only party able to confirm it.
Where this claim appeared
KrebsOnSecurity · 2026-09-01
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/What “Unverified” means
Widely repeated, but no supporting evidence was located. This is not a statement that the claim is false — it is a statement that nothing published supports it, which is a different and more common problem.
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