EP 14 · 2026-09-02 · ~11 min · punch-up PASS
“You Don't Need A Car To Have A Face”
A service called Nexus put scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses on a Russian cybercrime forum — the suspected source being the company whose whole job is proving you are a person. Two machines with no license at all read it out. Plus: New Jersey asks the Supreme Court who regulates betting on prediction markets; the DOJ says crypto seized from Hamas fundraising reached $560,000 and the FBI took the donation site itself; bitcoin shrugs at $77,451; and 1,969 people drink a shot of Malört at the same second, for a food pantry.
Running order
- 01SEGMENT A — LEAD“Face Inventory”PROVEN
- 02SEGMENT B“Whose Rulebook”PROVEN
- 03SEGMENT C“Somebody Owns the Door”PROVEN
- 04MONEY DESK“BTC $77,451 +0.43%”REPORTED
- 05ONE MORE THING“1,969 Throats, One Shot”PROVEN
The Receipts
every claim, dated + attributedOne More Thing
PROVEN1,969 people simultaneously drank a shot of Jeppson's Malört at Recess in Chicago's West Loop on 2026-08-30 at 7:50 p.m., setting a world record; Gov. JB Pritzker poured, and $10 per ticket went to Ravenswood Community Services
- ▸UPI Odd News2026-09-02
- ▸Block Club Chicago2026-08-31
Segment A
PROVENa dark-web service called Nexus listed scans of 153M+ US/Canadian driver's licenses (plus 10M+ ID cards, 3M+ travel documents, 579,000+ medical cards); the suspected source is New Orleans identity-verification firm IDScan.net, which says it is investigating; the FBI's New Orleans field office opened a case, and the service went offline after publication
- ▸Krebs on Security2026-09-01
- ▸Ars Technica2026-09-02
Segment B
PROVENNew Jersey AG Jennifer Davenport filed a 332-page cert petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court whether states or the CFTC regulate sports-event betting on prediction markets, after the Third Circuit sided with Kalshi
- ▸CoinDesk2026-09-02
- ▸Cointelegraph2026-09-02
- ▸The Block2026-09-02
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