FacePass Breach Exposes 1.6M Biometric and ID Records
The recent breach at #FacePass, a Brazilian facial recognition and identification app, has exposed deep vulnerabilities in the growing digital ID ecosystem. Over 1.6 million files containing sensitive user data and internal system credentials were left unsecured in a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket, according to cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews.
The exposed data includes national identity numbers, facial verification selfies, full names, CPF tax IDs, phone numbers, and AWS access credentials — painting a troubling picture of both individual and systemic risk.
As Brazil moves rapidly toward integrating #biometric verification and #DigitalID into its national infrastructure, this incident highlights how fragile such digital identity systems can be, especially as more and more countries are pushing to implement the controversial system.
Via @reclaimthenet
#Brazil
The recent breach at #FacePass, a Brazilian facial recognition and identification app, has exposed deep vulnerabilities in the growing digital ID ecosystem. Over 1.6 million files containing sensitive user data and internal system credentials were left unsecured in a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket, according to cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews.
The exposed data includes national identity numbers, facial verification selfies, full names, CPF tax IDs, phone numbers, and AWS access credentials — painting a troubling picture of both individual and systemic risk.
As Brazil moves rapidly toward integrating #biometric verification and #DigitalID into its national infrastructure, this incident highlights how fragile such digital identity systems can be, especially as more and more countries are pushing to implement the controversial system.
Via @reclaimthenet
#Brazil