US claims that stole more than five million fingerprints on cyber – Univision

data theft of millions of US officials Two cyber attacks in July involved the theft of a 5.6 million of sets Fingerprint , prints officials said Wednesday.

Officials said the latest analysis of cyber attacks to -atribuidos hackers based in China does not change the number of people affected, which is kept in 21500000 .

A statement from the Office of Personnel Management US said the new estimates come from further infringements by researchers analyzes.

The theft could give Chinese intelligence services an advantage for the possible recruitment of informants within the US government, experts believe. It could also help the Chinese to identify US spy on the outside, according to US officials.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) argues that the ability of an adversary to exploit the stolen data is limited, but admitted that “this could change over time as technology advances.”

For US intelligence agencies, the notion that the Chinese have fingerprint data of millions of people with federal security clearance, some of which could be agents foreign intelligence, is of utmost concern. All intelligence agent whose identity has been registered fingerprint face a serious risk work underground.

Official US sources have not charged Chinese publicly of being behind this massive pirating but many private analysts say the incident is probably part of China’s espionage efforts.

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