153 million driver’s license scans hit the dark web. Your ID may be in the pile, and you never chose the company that had it.

October 9, 2026

By Kim Komando

Think about the last time you handed over your driver’s license. Picking up a rental car. Grabbing a package. Buying a bottle of wine.

Did you ever wonder where that scan went? I didn’t either.

It went to a middleman. IDScan.net makes the scanners businesses use to check your ID, and it confirmed hackers got in on Sept. 4. 

🫆 The numbers are staggering 

Sellers on a dark web market are advertising more than 153 million license scans, plus millions of passports and ID cards. Think about that for a moment. It’s unbelievable, I know.

IDScan.net confirms full names and ID numbers were exposed. It hasn’t confirmed the crooks’ totals.

Its clients include Hertz, FedEx and Target. Millions of ordinary people were exposed by a vendor they couldn’t name. Nice.

🪪 You can’t cancel your face

Lose a credit card, and you cancel it in five minutes. Your license number? Your face? Those don’t reset.

That’s the whole data economy in one breach. Your life gets copied, stored and sold by companies you never chose.

Old-school identity protection watched one thing: your Social Security number. You need much more than that today.

🛡️ Watching your SSN is so 2016

Today, crooks mix and match. A license number here, a phone number there, a leaked email password, a laptop with malware. One number isn’t the whole picture anymore.

That’s why I like Coveron. It watches the whole crime scene:

• Criminal record monitoring, so you hear about it from an alert, not a traffic stop
• Malware alerts when the leak is from your own device
• Real-time dark web scans for your email, U.S. phone numbers and SSN
• Alerts that tell you exactly what to do next
• Scam loss reimbursement, up to your plan’s limits
• Up to $2 million in identity theft coverage

Here’s your to-do list. Freeze your credit at Equifax, Experian, TransUnion and Innovis. It’s free. 

Then put Coveron on watch. 

✅ It’s 71% off, only $4.36 a month, with a money-back guarantee.

📩 Send this to someone who hands over their license without a second thought.