U.S. Customs and Border Protection said this
week that photos of travelers and license plates
collected at the nation’s borders have been
exposed in a malicious cyberattack.
The federal agency did not name the
subcontractor whose computer network was
hacked, but the announcement followed news
that a Tennessee-based company that bills itself
as the sole provider of stationary license plate
readers at U.S. borders had been compromised.
The U.K. computer security website The Register,
which said the hacker responsible alerted it to
the breach in late May, identified the company
as Perceptics.
A spokesman for the company did not
immediately respond to an email from The
Associated Press seeking comment.