Here Are Images of Drivers Hacked From a U.S. Border Protection Contractor

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43j5wm/here-are-images-of-drivers-hacked-from-a-us-border-protection-contractor-on-the-dark-web-perceptics

By Joseph Cox
Motherboard.vice.com
June 13, 2019

This week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that hackers 
compromised traveler images and license plate photos from one of the 
agency's contractors. In a statement, the agency said that "none of the 
image data has been identified on the Dark Web or internet."

But Motherboard found and downloaded thousands of driver and license plate 
images that were hacked from Perceptics, a government contractor believed 
to be the one affected in the incident CBP described. The vast majority of 
photos Motherboard obtained are not from CBP or a border crossing—instead, 
they appear to be related to a Perceptics demo conducted for toll 
collection on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which is operated by the 
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. The hacked data also includes 
CBP-related files, including a 2015 presentation that contains images of 
people in their vehicles as part of a proof-of-concept Perceptics made for 
CBP in 2015.

In some of the Pennsylvania Turnpike images, drivers' faces are clearly 
visible; in many of them, license plate and car make-and-model information 
is easy to see.

CBP has not yet confirmed that Perceptics is the company it was referring 
to in its press releases earlier this week, and has declined to answer 
questions about the company affected. However, the title of a Word 
document the agency sent to The Washington Post included "Perceptics."

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