A US military device used to capture fingerprints and perform iris scans sold on eBay for $68. A German security researcher, Matthias Marx, returned home to Hamburg in August and found the hand-held machine contained a memory card with the names, nationalities, photographs, fingerprints, and iris scans of 2,632 people, the New York Times reports.
“Most people in the database, which was reviewed by The New York Times, were from Afghanistan and Iraq. Many were known terrorists and wanted individuals, but others appeared to be people who had worked with the U.S. government or simply been stopped at checkpoints.”
Mr. Marx is a German Security Researcher and had read about these biometric devices falling into Taliban hands. SEEK II The device is known as a Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit, or SEEK II. They bought five of these devices. On another, they said they found sensitive, identifying information of U.S. servicemen. That […]
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