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Hackers make off with 5.6 million fingerprints

Written by Reuters on September 24, 2015 in News with 0 Comments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers who stole security clearance data on millions of Defence Department and other U.S. government employees got away with about 5.6 million fingerprint records, some 4.5 million more than initially reported, the government said on Wednesday. The additional stolen fingerprint records were identified as part of an ongoing analysis of the data […]