Rented a car, hours later my driver's license was for sale among 153M records on dark web
chha · hn · 2026-09-03
Ars Technica story (discussed on HN): shortly after renting a car, the author found their driver's license listed for sale on a new dark-web site claiming to hold 153 million license records. The thread digs into how such breaches happen and the identity-theft risk.
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