There are fingerprints everywhere, but no one has been caught. On Wednesday last week, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) admitted that the data breach it suffered in June was worse than first thought with 5,6 million fingerprints among the 21,5 million personal records compromised. It had thought the figure was 1,1 million. Although guilt is hard to prove, the US government suspects that Chinese hackers stole the biometric data, enabling them to clone the identities of security-cleared personnel. The attack is part of a string of assaults that has escalated cybersecurity tensions, and US president Barack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping discussed the issue this week.
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