Hackers steal 5.6 million of irrevocable biometric identifiers from U.S. federal employees

We had reported a Cyberattacke on the human resources department for the federal government some weeks before.

When hackers steal your password, you change it. When hackers steal your fingerprints, they’ve got an unchangeable credential that lets them spoof your identity for life.

OPM, which serves as a sort of human resources department for the federal government, had previously confirmed that the data of 21.5 million federal employees was potentially compromised by the hack and number of federal employees’ fingerprints compromised in the massive breach of its servers revealed over the summer has grown from 1.1 million to 5.6 million.

Read morei https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a8fc1630
and http://www.wired.com/2015/09/opm-now-admits-5-6m-feds-fingerprints-stolen-hackers/

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