The stolen licence scans include infrared and ultraviolet copies. That is what traced them to a scanner
2026-09-07Security
A dark web service called Nexus advertised more than 153 million US and Canadian driver's licence scans, six image files each. Brian Krebs found his own licence in it, and his mother's, timestamped seconds apart on a day they both rented a car. The infrared and ultraviolet frames are the detail that says where the images came from.