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Hackers steal 'tens of thousands' of traveler photos and license plate images taken at points of entry into America in a 'major' data breach
2019-06-11
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  Who is/are the hacker(s) and to what purpose?

On its website, the agency says that it routinely uses cameras and video recordings of people and vehicles seen at land border crossings and airports to form a growing agency facial-recognition program designed to track the identity of people entering and leaving the country.

To identify which of it's operatives Perceptics may have compromised.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-11 18:22  

#2  They shouldn't have to steal that data anyway. Maybe someone wants to do DHS' work for them ? Or prove that something is amiss ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-11 13:47  

#1  Who is/are the hacker(s) and to what purpose?
Perceptics has some data-handling and security problems.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-06-11 12:05  

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