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Over 9 million facial recognition images leaked in major breach at reverse image search and identity verification service
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Over 9 million facial recognition images leaked in major breach at reverse image search and identity verification service
Researcher inds ClarityCheck’s exposed 450GB database with 9M+ user imagesLeak included faces, profiles, and photos, risking identity theft and phishing abuseCompany secured access quickly; no evidence of dark web distribution or misuse so farAn online reverse-lookup platform has inadvertently leaked millions of faces on the internet, putting people at risk of identity theft, phishing, and more, experts have warned.Jeremiah Fowler, a cybersecuri…
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The service promised a "private and secure" image search. Its 450 gigabytes of faces slept in a password-free storage space, the address of which was included in the site code.
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