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CYBER

What Happens When a US Border Protection Contractor Gets Hacked?

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of CYBER, Joseph Cox and Motherboard EIC Jason Koebler discuss the breach of a Customs and Border Protection contractor that exposed pictures of drivers in Pennsylvania, and the implications for the future of data retention. This story comes on the cusp of groundbreaking attempts by the CBP to use facial recognition software along the border and collecting visitors social media information.

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0:00.0

Tannen, it's got the code. It's going to launch.

0:09.0

It's a unit system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:25.6

Every day, 1.1 million people travel through American points of entry,

0:30.6

according to statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

0:33.6

And of that, almost 700,000 are people coming in by land. Of those numbers, almost 300,000 come in by

0:41.4

privately owned vehicles. At the same time, depending on their way in, CBP gets fingerprints,

0:47.5

photos, biometric data, passport IDs, and license plate numbers of all the millions of people

0:52.7

who crossed the border.

0:57.5

Which is why, when motherboard reporter Joseph Cox reported in May that a hacker known as Boris the Bullet Dodger,

1:00.9

yes, that's undoubtedly a snatch reference.

1:03.5

Boris the Blade or Boris the Bullet Dodger.

1:06.7

Spent as the Soviet sickle and as hard as the helmet crosses it.

1:10.5

Apparently, it's just impossible to kill a bastard.

1:13.6

Said he'd hacked a license plate reader company called Perceptics,

1:16.6

then posted a large cache of the stolen data on the dark web.

1:21.6

Now, less than a month later, CBP issued a statement confirming a data breach at one of its contractors, the details of which

1:29.2

line up with the perceptics case.

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