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New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records: Report

  • August 20, 2019
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Nic-Automox

Kinda hard to get issued a new set of fingerprints! According to the article they’re storing the actual fingerprint too, instead of just a hash.

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dimforest
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  • August 20, 2019


It’s 2019 and people are still storing stuff like this?


dimforest
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  • August 20, 2019

Apparently they had passwords in plain text too. So that’s pretty cool.


Nic-Automox
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  • August 20, 2019

Same with Virgin Media:


dimforest
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  • August 20, 2019

Well isn’t that lovely.