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. The breach comes weeks after a report said Perceptics, a government contractor, which claims to be the “sole provider” of license plate readers at U.S. land borders, was breached and its data was dumped on the dark web. It remains unclear exactly what kind of photos were taken, such as if the images were collected directly from CBP officers by visitors entering the U.S. or part of the agency’s rollout of facial recognition technology at U.S. airports.

Source: techcrunch.com