This time it was the U.S. Customs and Border Protection which reported to Techcrunch.com about a recent breach. See CBP says traveler photos and license plate images stolen in data breach:
“CBP learned that a subcontractor, in violation of CBP policies and without CBP’s authorization or knowledge, had transferred copies of license plate images and traveler images collected by CBP to the subcontractor’s company network,” said an agency statement. ...
A spokesperson for the agency later said the security incident affected “fewer than 100,000 people” through a “few specific lanes at a single land border” over a period of a month and a half.
So it was only 100,000, huh? That seems small when compared with the OPM hack of a few years ago wherein records of as many as four million people were taken.
So what happens to all that data? It's tempting to envision some super villain compiling dossiers on every American for some evil scheme that would result in a compromised government. Or maybe it's not a super villain but a rival nation with the goal of ultimately defeating the wicked West.
Anyway, it seems that nothing in a computer is secret anymore.
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4:27 PM 6/21/2019
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