New Orleans153 million licenses surfaced on the dark web.
A license cannot be rotated like a password, so the exposure has no expiry.
The breach hit private scanning services that rental firms and hotels use, not a government database.
The FBI is investigating after the marketplace, called Nexus, went offline within hours.
How each outlet framed it
- Ars Technica
- traces breach timing—licenses appear within hours of victim use, suggesting real-time access; identifies IDScan.net as likely source via public records
Sources: Ars Technica