Desk: It has been revealed that the data of 15 crore citizens of America has been sold on the dark web. This includes information related to driving license, travel documents and identity card. Investigating agency FBI has started investigating the case. Journalist Brian Krebs has exposed the sale of this data. According to him, his own data was also listed for sale on the website.
Data of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and FBI Assistant Director was also found listed for sale on the dark web service. According to news agency Reuters, this data was sold on websites linked to Russia. Information about who bought it and why it was bought has not been revealed.
An advertisement was released by Nexus on the Russian cyber crime forum Exploit. In this, the data of 15 crore Americans was offered for sale. Some people also bought it, but it is not known how much data was sold. According to Krebs, data of 11 lakh people of Canada has also been leaked. The FBI has not yet given any statement on this. The agency says that information will be given after the investigation is completed.
According to reports, apart from driving licenses, more than 1 crore identity cards, more than 30 lakh travel documents and at least 5,79,000 medical cards were listed for sale on the exploit. Data sellers claim that this is the latest data, which they have stolen and collected in the last one year. However, after the matter was revealed, it has been removed from the dark web service.
Data of researcher Jack Edwards, who researches on security and confidentiality topics, has also been leaked. Edwards says that he gave his data to a car company to buy a car. He did not buy the car from there, but his data got leaked. Another similar case came to light. An American company idscan.net does document scanning. A lot of data has been leaked from here. The company has said that an investigation will be conducted.