Almost nothing is scarier than finding out your privacy has been breached.

One tech reporter found out in the worst way possible.

‘We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database.’

Writer Brian Krebs says he was alerted by a source on Monday that his driver’s license had found its way onto the dark web. Even worse, it was being given away as a free sample.

The source told Krebs that a service called Nexus was being advertised on a Russian cybercrime forum, Exploit, which was offering access to digital scans of IDs from an unthinkable number of people in North America.

Krebs wrote, “The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers license as a free sample in their initial sales thread on Exploit.”

The identity theft archive allegedly contained more than 153 million driver’s licenses from North America, along with other identity documents that push the number of stolen IDs to more than 170 million.

After cross-referencing the dates and times listed on the documents of his colleagues, the reporter established that the images were likely being taken from a widely used verification company in Louisiana.

The accused website, idscan.net, told the outlet it was investigating the matter, but “was not able to share any additional information.”

The ID of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth allegedly appeared on the website, too, with a price tag of $100 to “purchase” the record.

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“We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database,’ Nexus reportedly wrote. “Records are available to preview before purchase with pertinent information redacted. Customer photos are displayed if available.”

Other stolen data on the website purportedly included travel documents, medical cards, marijuana dispensary cards, and more.

Some records had their source as “CDL,” likely commercial driver’s license, and “CAC,” which could refer to government ID cards for Common Access.

Nexus claimed the images were coming from an active breach at a “major identify verification company” that has multiple Fortune 500 companies as customers.

Krebs said his page on the website included six images files, which consisted of infrared and ultraviolet versions of his license. The date and time stamp corresponded to a flight he took in 2025.

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The report further stated that the FBI’s New Orleans field office had launched an investigation into the source of the images.

Blaze Media reached out to the FBI national press office and the New Orleans office to verify the existence of an investigation into the matter, but neither replied.

The website in question appeared to have been taken down since reports circulated.

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While many Harry Potter fans are preparing for the latest rendition of the fabulously popular “Harry Potter” fantasy franchise, liberals on Bluesky are raging at anyone who might stab the transgender movement in the back.

Many have turned against the series after author J.K. Rowling unapologetically defended women’s rights against the interests of the transgender agenda.

‘F**k that hateful witch i wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.’

On Bluesky, the left-wing alternative to the X social media platform, the activists are especially vicious against Rowling. The boycott calls centered around a screed at the Verge claiming Rowling was using her wealth to erase trans people “from existence.”

“Supporting this genocidal bulls**t in a world with 1,345,869,098 other TV shows you haven’t watched yet is unnecessary and harmful,” read one response.

“Rowling is a fascist and supporting her show enables it to continue,” replied another critic.

“Oppressing a micro-minority from position of power to try and stay relative in an attention economy. A group posing no threat to you or society,” said another detractor.

“The unaffected cis people clinging onto their emotional support franchise like the last drop of heroin in a needle is crazy,” said another critic.

“The average [Harry Potter] fan would rather push us into a woodchipper than give it up.”

“F**k that hateful witch i wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire,” said another critic. “I’m definitely not watching that s**t.”

“I’m keeping a list of the HBO Harry Potter actors just so I can never watch their s**t ever again. F**k all of them. Make that show poisonous and career-destroying, just like their hateful hearts,” said one in response to the HBO trailer.

Another critic called the series fundamentally bad because it’s “classist, racist, pro-slavery, pro-cop, regressive, anti-revolutionary.”

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Rowling has faced the criticism on social media with re-energized attacks on the transgender agenda. She has also had to distance herself from some of the Harry Potter film actors over the issue.

“Men defining what a woman is, what women should and shouldn’t fear, what women should and shouldn’t say, what rights women should be fine with giving up and, of course, what constitutes ‘real’ misogyny: get a bloody mirror,” Rowling posted in 2023.

“That’s real misogyny, looking right back at you,” she added.

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