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ABC and Business Insider and others are reporting that
Hackers broke into a database of images of travellers and licence plates collected by US Customs and Border Protection, the agency said on Monday.
The hackers gained access to the images through a subcontractor's network, CBP said. The subcontractor, which the agency declined to name, had transferred the photographs to its network in violation of CBP policies"
The CBP makes extensive use of cameras and video recordings at airports and land border crossings, where images of vehicles are captured. Those images are used as part of a growing agency facial-recognition program designed to track the identity of people entering and exiting the US.
The CBP said airport operations were not affected by the breach, but it declined to say how many people might have had their images stolen.
The Sydney Morning Herald has further details
A CBP statement said that the agency learnt of the breach on May 31 and that none of the image data had been identified "on the dark web or internet."
But reporters at The Register, reported late last month that a large haul of breached data from the firm Perceptics was being offered as a free download on the dark web.
The CBP would not say which subcontractor was involved. But a Microsoft Word document of the agency's public statement, sent on Monday to Washington Post reporters, included the name "Perceptics" in the title: CBP Perceptics Public Statement.
Perceptics representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
CBP spokeswoman Jackie Wren said she was "unable to confirm" whether Perceptics was the source of the breach.
Pay peanuts, get monkeys... but this is government contracting, so pay lots and lots of peanuts, get... much bigger monkeys?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:30PM (9 children)
Real hackers will go after the IRS, the sate department, the EU, Russia, China, Zimbabwe, all the real crooks. Why isn't it happening?! Because it's bullshit!
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday June 11 2019, @06:33PM (4 children)
Yeah, sorry, no. In this shitty cyberpunk future we live in, there's no hacker punks undermining the system.
There's only corporate shitheads, military shitheads, and petty criminals doing the hacking. They threw all the white hats in jail.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:34PM (3 children)
Ah yes, when a "Science and Technology" discussion forum kicks off the thread with "hacks are fake news" you start to wonder....
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:16PM (2 children)
Ah, the democrats! Always misreading everything. Hey, dummy! They left the door open. Nobody "broke in". There was no "hack" *sheesh*
Heh, for real fake news, I listen to that cute little lesbo chick on MSDNC, what's her name? Rachel something or another...? Talk about full of shit! Indeed she is...
We need more hacks into the DNC also. They're getting away with murder... For what it's worth we need to read all the emails. Then we will find real election fraud inside their little enclave... not that it will affect you fanbois, but it just needs to be out there.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:06PM (1 child)
I guess we're adding computer science to the list of sciences that conservatives aren't allowed to discuss.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @12:56AM
Very funny
Unfounded false accusations is the "science" of the democrat sect.
Where's your proof?! Actually, I'm asking about your Russiagate also. Lots of opinion with nothing but hearsay to back it up.
I notice your little democrat friends are moderating this thread also.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @06:36PM (2 children)
IRS Reports 700,000 U.S. Taxpayers Hacked
State Dept Hack the 'worst ever'
Hacked European Cables
Anonymous Claims To Have Taken Down Zimbabwean Government
Russia & China hack themselves
The real question is... Who hasn't been hacked?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 11 2019, @06:47PM (1 child)
The guy with an abacus
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(Score: 3, Funny) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:31PM
I put Molluscum Contagiosum [webmd.com] on his beads. He got a virus too!
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:32PM
Wow, that's some seriously motivated ignorance right there!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 11 2019, @06:37PM (3 children)
Those much bigger government monkeys are known as elephants. They love big peanuts.
They are not in the set of Euclid's Elephants due to cost overruns on peanuts.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @06:46PM (2 children)
How do you know? Have you used Finite Elephant Analysis?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:59PM (1 child)
Not finite. It's elephants all the way down.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday June 12 2019, @04:49AM
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 11 2019, @06:41PM
If those images are available on the dark web, then a new facial recognition AI can be trained to spot people who travel internationally.
And another AI to recognize license plates of people who drive in and out of the country.
Or generate fictional faces that look like people who travel internationally.
But not generate fictional license places that look like plates that are driven in and out of the country.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:34PM
Since we don't have networks that are secure by design, and we readily sacrifice security for convenience, it is larger than just a "Gubmints Are Idjits" problem. But leave it to CBP to try and obscure this as much as they can instead of being transparent about it.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:37PM (6 children)
Alternatively, a private corporation fucked us yet again.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:58PM (2 children)
They could say they were cost saving. Trying to save US taxpayer money1.
They thought if CBP's network was secure enough for these images, then their own corporate network must be secure enough also.
What possible consequences have there ever been? Or will there be for this instance?
None? Then expect the same to continue happening.
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1so they could keep the savings for themselves
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @06:06AM (1 child)
Why would images be stored in cleartext? Just encrypt the data before storing it. Are these people that stupid?
I bet they store their passwords in a text file named "passwords.txt"
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 12 2019, @12:56PM
I would venture a guess that passwords.txt has only five characters in it, which are all digits.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:37PM (2 children)
Why was a private company involved at all?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 11 2019, @10:57PM
Why do you hate capitalism?
Being at the receiving end of a deep state of fuckery is not a reason, what are you, a commie?
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @01:28AM
> Why was a private company involved at all?
Damn Republicans, fired all the analysts to "save taxpayer money", had to hire them back for more money as contractors.