It has been coming for some time, but now the major breach of a biometric database has actually been reported
2 biometric identity SDK integrated into the AEOS access control system"used by 5,700 organisations in 83 countries, including governments, banks and the police."
Rotem and Locar found the breach by scanning ports for"familiar IP blocks," threads they would then follow looking for public facing datasets, breaches in other words. The motherlode for such research is either sensitive data or large-scale companies. In this instance, they appear to have found both combined.
Highly sensitive data was left unencrypted, the researchers also claim, including usernames and passwords."We were able to find plain-text passwords of."The access allows first of all seeing millions of users are using this system to access different locations and see in real time which user enters which facility or which room in each facility." The researchers were even"able to change data and add new users.
According to the researchers,"instead of saving a hash of the fingerprint they are saving people’s actual fingerprints that can be copied for malicious purposes." If true, if this biometric data has been left in a usable form, then there need to be questions asked way beyond the breach itselfthey had made"multiple attempts" to contact Suprema before disclosing their findings.
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