In several states your driver's license number is created [highprogrammer.com] entirely from publicly available information; to wit (e.g. in Illinois): First, middle, last names, birth date, and gender. If I know these things about you, I can accurately generate your Illinois driver's license number. So there's no particular reason to steal the numbers from a website.
The names are soundex-ed which is not perfectly reversible, but the birthdate and gender can be extracted from the license number.
A number of states are similar--nothing special about the DL number. The checksum calculation (if existing) is typically trivial and publicly available.
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In several states your driver's license number is created [highprogrammer.com] entirely from publicly available information; to wit (e.g. in Illinois): First, middle, last names, birth date, and gender. If I know these things about you, I can accurately generate your Illinois driver's license number. So there's no particular reason to steal the numbers from a website.
The names are soundex-ed which is not perfectly reversible, but the birthdate and gender can be extracted from the license number.
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A number of states are similar--nothing special about the DL number. The checksum calculation (if existing) is typically trivial and publicly available.