ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen
6:21 AM PDT · September 10, 2026
ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached during a year-long hack.
The company said in a website notice that hackers stole the driver’s licenses from the company’s cloud; the stolen information includes people’s full names and driver’s license numbers, along with identity numbers from other government-issued documents, such as passports.
The Louisiana-based firm is used by corporate customers from entertainment venues to cannabis dispensaries to check and verify the identity documents of their customers. The notice is the company’s first acknowledgement that it had been hacked. The company said last week that it was investigating an incident, but had not yet confirmed an intrusion.
IDScan said in its notice that it “received information” on or around September...
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