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.”

RELATED: JK Rowling goes scorched-earth on Emma Watson’s privileged woke activism: ‘She’s ignorant’

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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A federal appeals court ruled that New York teachers do not have a constitutional right to hang Pride flags in their classrooms, and the liberal reaction is utter outrage.

Christopher Dolce, an openly gay math teacher, filed a lawsuit against the Connetquot Central School District after a different math teacher was ordered in 2022 to take down a Pride flag and LGBTQ+ stickers from the classroom.

The court found that the sticker and Pride flag ban did not violate teachers’ constitutional rights.

Dolce claimed the policy was discriminatory and demanded that the district pay him damages.

Hundreds of students and parents rallied in 2022 at the school board meeting over the removal of the flag after several students reported feelings of discomfort over the flag.

The district said that teachers were not allowed to participate in political activities on school grounds.

After much public outrage and legal wrangling, a court has ruled four years later against the gay math teacher’s Pride flag. The court found that the sticker and Pride flag ban did not violate teachers’ constitutional rights and that they did not suffer any adverse employment actions from the policy.

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) had also directed the Division of Human Rights of New York state to investigate the district for potentially violating the Human Rights Law of the state.

The district noted in court that the policy did not restrict personal displays, such as an LGBTQ pin worn by a teacher or teachers displaying a photo of themselves and their same-sex partners.

RELATED: NY town official upset that LGBTQ+ members won’t be ‘seen’ after Pride flag is removed

‘What goes next on the slippery slope when a school can pick and choose arbitrarily, arbitrarily which symbols they like and which symbols they hate? That’s how you delete marginalized groups!” said attorney Andrew Lieb of the LGBT Network in 2022.

Sarah Ecke, the original teacher who was banned from flying a Pride flag, was also the leader of the Gay Straight Alliance at the school.

Lieb compared the LGBTQ Pride flag to the French flag while defending the teacher in April 2025.

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Tom Cruise, made famous by his action-hero roles in the “Mission: Impossible” and “Top Gun” films, is almost unrecognizable in the upcoming movie “Digger” — a dark satirical comedy set to hit theaters October 2. The 64-year-old star plays Digger Rockwell, a fat, balding Southern oil billionaire with a comb-over and thick accent whose company triggers a global ecological disaster that could start a nuclear war.

On this episode of “Stu and Dave Do America,” BlazeTV host and comedian extraordinaire Dave Landau is joined by Angela Boggs to recap Tom Cruise’s wild new role, tease “Days of Thunder 2,” and run a Cruise-obsessed funeral-home skit.

“They age [Cruise] so much to look old, but he’s really just one year older,” says Dave, highlighting how Cruise looks more his age as Digger Rockwell than he does off-screen.

The difference is so stark, he can’t help but joke, “Tom Cruise did not even use prosthetics; he just stopped drinking baby blood for a few weeks.”

Jokes aside, Dave is interested in seeing the movie.

“The thing I will admit about Tom Cruise is I’m usually entertained by his movies,” he confesses.

He then plays a Cruise-inspired skit, in which he and Angela play Mr. and Mrs. Rollins — a couple who visit “Glamorous Funeral Home” directed by former flair bartender and die-hard Cruise fan Jack Glamorous, who puts “the fun back in the funeral.”

From one Cruise spectacle to another, the pair also preview “Days of Thunder 2,” which Dave says people have been begging for “since 1990.” Cruise will return as NASCAR driver Cole Trickle alongside Anne Hathaway, who co-stars as a team owner and engineer.

Even though it’s not set to release until summer 2028, Angela is already chomping at the bit to see it.

“I think that this has the potential to really just like heal the world,” she says.

To hear more and watch the duo’s hilarious skit, check out the episode above.

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HBO actor J. Alphonse Nicholson made it clear he would rather have Kamala Harris as president, but his reasoning is likely to confuse his fans.

Nicholson stars as the father of a superhero in “Lanterns,” an HBO series about the Green Lantern. Nicholson plays John Sr., the father of John Stewart, a character who first appeared in comic books in the early 1970s.

‘I think this show hits it home that this black woman is the reason why this young man goes where he needs to go.’

Kamala corps

Appearing on the podcast titled “Frankie Finds,” which airs on a channel that focuses heavily on race, the show began with an unironic discussion of how many black people were in the latest episode of “Lanterns.”

“It was the most black people I’ve ever seen on a screener,” the host stated.

“I think it’s so interesting that you say it’s such a black show, because I don’t think people think of blackness when they consider the Green Lanterns and the Green Lantern corps,” the host said.

Among the discussion’s 50+ mentions of being black was Nicholson saying what he thinks one of the core themes of his show is: “I think this show hits it home that this black woman is the reason why this young man goes where he needs to go,” he began.

The North Carolina native then pondered what it would be like if former Vice President Harris had won the 2024 election.

“Could you imagine where we would be right now if Kamala got up in there, dog?” Nicholson continued. “Could you imagine how it would’ve been? It’d be a lot different. So we’re experiencing the consequences of not trusting a black woman,” the actor added.

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Call from the fun police

Not only should the population be unilaterally “trusting a black woman,” according to Nicholson, but the same can be said for how to get a great superhero.

“And now we have this show … that can kind of tell you how great it could be and how great of a superhero we can create and have — if you trust a black woman. It’s really dope.”

The bizarre discussion of “Lanterns” circled back to race frequently, but the 36-year-old seemed more hesitant than his host to relate everything to being black.

This is not the first time Nicholson has been in the headlines for some of his off-screen content. In 2022, the actor issued an apology following his participation in a skit based on one of his recurring characters.

Nicholson played a character named Lil’ Murda for 18 episodes on the show “P-Valley,” a show about strippers whose title stands for exactly what you think it does.

Nicholson’s character was a closeted homosexual, and when he made a comedy sketch with some of his friends about that fact, he got a call from the fun police.

RELATED: Pat McAfee refused to fold, and ESPN paid up. There’s a lesson there for young men.

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Murda one

Nicholson explained that the bit was his two friends did not want to smoke with him in real life because the character he played was gay, but that apparently went too far.

“The skit, I was told, was to be done to make fun of the rumors and the ignorance that people surround myself, and the character, and me having my own strain, and people maybe not wanting to smoke with me because of the character that I play on Lil’ Murda,” he said in a video on X.

“And so we’re picking fun at the ignorance and the ignorance of those people that make fun and create those situations,” Nicholson stated, before adding that he learned that “you can’t make fun of ignorance.”

The strange statement led to an apology to his loved ones and his “family in the LGBT community.”

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Democrats have never run out of ways to cast themselves as victims — and according to BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales, it’s only getting worse.

“Democrats and liberals, they’re just always victims. They are just always the victims in life. Nothing is ever good enough. They always have to complain that they’re oppressed. Someone is oppressing them,” she says.

“And I’d like to introduce you at this point to Representative Maxwell Frost, a Democrat from Florida,” she adds, playing a clip of Frost from a Jubilee debate.

“I don’t have a ton of money in a bank account when I decided to run for office, so I had to hustle and make ends meet, which is the thing that you are all telling Gen Z,” Frost said, arguing that the American dream is out of reach.

“That’s the American dream,” his opponent, wearing a patriotic headband, interjected.

“You lived it,” he added, before clapping along with the rest of the Jubilee debaters.

Frost then denied that it was the “American dream.”

“The American dream isn’t driving Uber to barely make ends meet. The American dream is upward mobility and being able to have success,” he argued.

“You went from driving an Uber to being a politician,” his opponent said, dumbfounded. “Is that upward?”

“That sounds pretty upward to me. A lot of upward mobility in the change from driving Uber to a representative in Congress. But then again, I’m not a Democrat,” Gonzales comments.

But it gets worse, as the next clip Gonzales plays features MS NOW’s Eugene Daniels, who used a new leftist term to describe the racism and sexism Jasmine Crockett supposedly faced in her run, and loss, for the Texas Senate.

“I think what was really interesting about this primary in particular in Texas was that the nastiness online bled into the nastiness on the ground,” he began.

“Usually it’s like, you know, the internet is not real life, which I believe typically when it comes to politics, like a lot of people yelling about everything, but somehow in Texas it became a part of the actual campaign on the ground,” he continued.

“And so there was some racism online, a lot of racism, a lot of sexism, a lot of misogynoir, which is a connection of both of those things against her,” he added.

“What? ‘Misogynoir’? What are you? You just made that up, sir. That is not a term,” Gonzales says.

“That’s how bad it’s gotten. That is how bad the Democrat Party has gotten. There is no floor,” she adds.

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President Donald Trump has joked about possibly renaming another natural feature after recently declaring that Lake Ontario would be henceforth known as “Lake America.”

On Wednesday, the official account for the Trump White House posted a statement from the president offering a new name for the Strait of Hormuz.

‘We hit them very hard last night. We took out all of the new equipment that they tried to build along the Strait of Hormuz.’

“Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be ‘hotter’ than ever before!” the quote read.

The post added an image of the strait with the president’s name.

The strait is a pivotal choke point through which 20% of global petroleum liquids travel. The trade route has been significantly disrupted since February when the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began.

Trump has said that it has been reopened, but Iranian officials dispute that claim.

An Axios report documented efforts by the U.S. military to reduce the threat from Iran on oil tankers while secretly helping transport through a southern channel near Oman.

“That sucker is open. The Iranian response is very mild,” said Trump to Axios. “They don’t want us to go back at them. That’s the whole ball game. The rest doesn’t matter.”

Reopening the strait would help calm spiking gas prices and ease inflation woes just ahead of the midterm elections, where Democrats hope to seize control of Congress.

RELATED: VIDEO: Trump says he will declare new US territory ‘pretty soon’ in the Middle East

The president also announced Wednesday that the military has struck at Iran’s military overnight.

“We hit them very hard last night. We took out all of the new equipment that they tried to build along the Strait of Hormuz,” he said at the White House to reporters. “It was a very heavy attack last night, and we’re prepared to do another one any time we want.”

The president renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” shortly after retaking office during a feud with Mexico’s leadership about tariffs and the illicit drug trade into the U.S.

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