TechTimes reports:
Notification letters from a company called AssuranceAmerica began arriving in mailboxes on July 10 — and if one reached yours, you are among 6,998,886 people whose driver’s license numbers, insurance records, and in many cases Social Security numbers were stolen in a March cyberattack. The breach is the largest known exposure of Americans’ driver’s license data in 2026, as documented in Indiana and Maine AG filings. A credit freeze is your first and most important step — but it is not your only one, because your driver’s license number enables three distinct categories of fraud, and a freeze only blocks one of them.
Atlanta-based AssuranceAmerica Managing General Agency, LLC is not a company most policyholders know by name.
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But a credit freeze addresses only new-account financial fraud — loans, credit cards, and lines of credit opened in your name. Your driver’s license number enables two additional fraud categories that a credit freeze does not touch:
Criminal identity theft. When a thief uses your license number to create a forged or synthetic identification and is then detained for a traffic violation, their false information — your information — enters law enforcement records. The first indication a victim often receives is an unexpected court summons, an arrest warrant, or police appearing at their home. This risk does not appear on a credit report and is not blocked by a credit freeze. Driver’s license numbers can enable this form of impersonation even years after the breach.
Synthetic identity fraud.
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