The 5.6 million fingerprint files stolen during the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach could have a significant and dangerous impact on the intelligence community, Reuters reports. Biometrics already made spies’ “clandestine usefulness …very limited,” but these records, in the wrong hands and potentially supplanted by immigration files, make those in the intelligence community easier to identify and potentially bribe. However, the OPM alleges that the “the ability to misuse the data is currently limited,” the report states, but “will review the potential ways adversaries could misuse fingerprint data now and in the future,” the agency said.
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