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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