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

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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    • August 20, 2019

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

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    • August 20, 2019

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

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    • August 20, 2019

    Same with Virgin Media:

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    • August 20, 2019

    Well isn’t that lovely.

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