Hackers publish thousands of drivers’ data after breaching Florida motor vehicle database
ShinyHunters published hundreds of thousands of records from Florida's DAVID vehicle database, including SSNs and passports, after an unpaid ransom demand.
The ShinyHunters group published hundreds of thousands of files from Florida's DAVID motor vehicle database on its leak site, saying the victim did not pay a ransom. Stolen records include vehicle ownership certificates with names, addresses, and VINs, plus a smaller number of Social Security numbers, non-US passports, and immigration documents. FLHSMV confirmed the breach, which followed theft of a police officer's credentials stored on a personal device. It comes the same month as the IDScan hack exposing over 150 million driver's license images.
- ShinyHunters leaked hundreds of thousands of files after an unpaid ransom demand
- Stolen data includes names, addresses, VINs, some SSNs and passports
- Breach used a police officer's credentials stored on a personal device
- FLHSMV confirmed the DAVID database breach last week
- Follows IDScan hack exposing over 150 million license images
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11:00 AM PDT · September 16, 2026
The ShinyHunters hacking group has published hundreds of thousands of files from a Florida state database of vehicles and driver information. The hackers said they published the stolen data on its leak site “because the victim did not pay a ransom or cooperate and comply” with the hackers’ demands.
The hackers said they breached the database, known as DAVID, earlier in September and posted as evidence a screenshot purporting to be a record associated with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had a residence in the state.
The Florida motor vehicle agency, FLHSMV, confirmed a data breach in a statement last week, and after the hackers obtained a police officer’s credentials that were stored on a personal device. An agency spokesperson did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment on Wednesday about the published data.
According to a copy of the stolen data, which TechCrunch has seen, the hackers stole hundreds of thousands of certificates of vehicle ownership records, which contained vehicle owners’ names and addresses of buyers and sellers. The records also contained vehicle identification numbers.
A smaller number of files included Social Security numbers and other government-issued documents, such as non U.S. passports and immigration papers, but did not appear to contain driver’s licenses or people’s photos.
The driver’s license database breach comes in the same month after a monster hack at identity verification company IDScan allowed hackers to steal over 150 million images of driver’s licenses.
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