The startup came under scrutiny after it emerged that it had amassed 3 billion photos from social media for facial recognition software
The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has notified its customers that a bad actor had “gained unauthorized access” to its entire client list, which includes some of the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the United States. According to the notification obtained by the Daily Beast, the stolen information included customer names, the user accounts that the customers had set up, and even the number of searches that they ran through the service.
Overall, however, details are sparse about the nature of the incident or how it unfolded.
“Unfortunately, data breaches are part of life in the 21st century. Our servers were never accessed. We patched the flaw, and continue to work to strengthen our security,” Tor Eklund, an attorney representing the company, was quoted as saying.
Interestingly, Clearview AI denied that it had suffered any sort of breach of its own servers. The startup also gave assurances that the bad actors weren’t able to gain access to the search histories of any of the law-enforcement agencies using the system. Apparently, the image database was not accessed, either.
ESET Security Specialist Jake Moore shared his expert opinion on the matter: “Data breaches might be part of life in the 21st century but we need to make sure the severity is kept to a minimum and the data exposed is heavily encrypted. Any data breach is serious and should not be taken lightly. If the data exposed had included faces, it would have taken this to the next level.”
He goes on to ..
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