Trust Stamp announces an accelerated onboarding process for financial institutions whose data has been compromised by the leak of 166 million identity documents from a leading ID scanning company

Trust Stamp, a global provider of AI-powered trust, identity, and security solutions, announced that is accelerating onboarding and waiving setup fees for financial institutions moving to its American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) Driver’s License Data Verification (DLDV) service following the revelation that photographs of around 166 million identity documents have been leaked from a leading identity scan provider.

On September 1, 2026, Krebs on Security reported that a service operating on the dark web began selling photographs of more than 153 million driver’s licenses from the United States and Canada, along with roughly 10 million identification cards and 3 million passports and travel documents. Krebs verified the samples by searching the database for his own records and those of other individuals who had consented to the checks, and tracked the leak to IDScan. Media reports suggest that multiple lawsuits have already been filed against IDScan and law firms have also launched investigations into potential class-action litigation related to the reported security incident at IDScan.

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While traditional ID scanners check for security features on the physical card, and in many cases store an image of the card, Trust Stamp’s AAMVA DLDV service allows customers to confirm in real time that the information on the ID matches the DMV database without storing an image of the ID. This secondary layer of verification provides a heightened level of privacy protection while addressing high-end sophisticated forgeries that can bypass standard optical scans.

Gareth N Genner, CEO of Trust Stamp, commented, “Trust Stamp has always been committed to providing Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS) and our AAMVA DLDV service provides accessible, government-backed identity trust across the physical and digital worlds without compromising end-user security by storing images of their identity documents. As soon as the leak was announced we determined what would be needed to defend our clients against malevolent use of the data and developed measures we can quickly implement to protect financial institutions from the fraud risk and the potential legal liability from continued use of flawed legacy systems.”