The easiest thing you can do to protect yourself after a data breach is to change the exposed password, preferably to something unique and more secure than the previous one. However, if hackers steal your actual fingerprint — mind you, not an encrypted version of it — then there’s really nothing you can do to prevent anyone from abusing it since you obviously can’t change your fingerprints. And that’s precisely what could have easily happened with Suprema’s Biostar 2 biometrics lock systems.
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More than 1 million people had their fingerprint data exposed by a huge security hole originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 14:46:42 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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