Researchers at a cybersecurity firm said fingerprint and facial recognition data was exposed at a major biometric company, saying the potential for “fraud is massive.”
“This is a huge leak that endangers both the businesses and organizations involved, as well as their employees,” cybersecurity firm vpnMentor said in a
blog post about the breach on
BioStar 2, a biometric security platform built by Suprema, one of the world’s top security device and security system providers.
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One of the things that surprised vpnMentor was how unsecured the account passwords were. “Plenty of accounts had ridiculously simple passwords, like ‘Password’ and ‘abcd1234.’ It’s difficult to imagine that people still don’t realize how easy this makes it for a hacker to access their account,” the cybersecurity firm said in the blog post.
