IDScan leaked driver's licenses, and now it's handing out free credit monitoring to make up for it.
IDScan, an identity verification service, says it will give free credit monitoring and identity protection to people whose driver's licenses were exposed in a data leak. The company has not said how many people are affected, how the leak occurred, or how long the data was exposed before it was caught. It also has not detailed what other information, if any, was exposed alongside the licenses. The monitoring offer is IDScan's only public response to the incident so far.
IDScan was separately linked last week to an FBI investigation into a dark web marketplace. The company has not said whether that investigation has any connection to this leak, and no official link between the two has been confirmed. Still, a driver's license leak is a bigger long term problem than a typical password dump: you can reset a password, but not the ID number printed on your license.
Free credit monitoring is the standard apology gift after a breach, but it does nothing to stop someone from using a scanned license to open an account in your name.