He mentions how many people are in America total, compared to this number…but, what he forgets to take into account those who do not have id’s… sooo, that means many of us HAVE been leaked.
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This story is real and a major event, on the one hand, but it is also clickbait on the other hand. It’s true that investigative reporter Brian Krebs has verified that IDScan.net is the likely victim of a very large records breach. He also has verified that the number of records involved is about 153 million with 152 million attached to US residents. The FBI is treating this as a major crime that they are actively investigating. So where is the hype and clickbait, you might ask? The answer is, this is not a situation where 153 million records were suddenly breached. The evidence indicates that this has occurred over the course of more than a year. The other part that is hype is the evidence does not indicate that the identities of 153 million people have been breached. The 153 million number is the number of individual ID verification inquiries, not 153 million unique driver’s licenses. The number of individual IDs is still going to be huge but it won’t be anywhere 153 million individual IDs.
Again, this is a major crime as well as a major news item. Likewise, the clickbait and hype is also real. This is the part I’ve been trying to teach you for the past two years: That it is on the Internet does not make it true. Content creators get paid on total engagements and total time spent watching their videos. That means that there is a very real incentive to add hype and clickbait to a story that is mostly true because it can greatly increase the Bowling for Dollars payday payout. The hype changes the story and it puts viewers into states of mind that opens them up to become scam victims themselves at some later time. If you see a story like this do the research first before you decide how to react to it. Don’t try to find sources that confirm your preferred outcome - let the search results speak for themselves. Otherwise your search results end up being based on Confirmation Bias. 
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I haven’t looked at this report but it doesn’t surprise me. If it’s on a computer and the computer isn’t completely isolated from the Internet, someday, someone, somewhere will crack a PW or back door and get in. While it really is “rocket science” to breach the DOJ’s system, “rocket scientists” are real.