Hackers buy biometric info of US soldiers, allies off eBay

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Some more of FJB crap.......................

"A group of hackers bought biometric capture devices on eBay to see if they would find biometric data on people who assisted the U.S. military, and that's exactly what they found, according to Yahoo News.

When the CCC found the devices listed on eBay, the group bought six, most of which were under 200 euros. On one device purchased for just $68 were the names, nationalities, photographs, fingerprints, and iris scans of 2,632 people. Most of the people identified on the device's memory card were from Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the New York Times."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/researchers-find-biometric-info-soldiers

 

"Another device used in Jordan in 2013 contained fingerprints and iris scans of U.S. soldiers. The New York Times confirmed with one of the people whose data was on the machine that it was likely his, a Marine intelligence specialist who said his data was likely collected during a training course.

Yet another device obtained legally, called a Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit (SEEK II), contained data that was collected from "detainment facilities, on patrols, during screenings of local hires and after the explosion of an improvised bomb.""