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CBP is conducting warrantless phone searches of up to 10,000 Americans annually and storing details in a government database.

As federal agencies increasingly draw on biometric data for their work, the stakes for protecting that data from hackers have grown.

The issue has long been a concern for civil liberties groups and press advocates.

Privacy advocates are denouncing the ruling.

The hackers struck after the unnamed subcontractor transferred copies of the images collected by CBP to the subcontractor’s network.

The punishment could last for years if Perceptics is placed on a government blacklist.

While the Department of Homeland Security has looked to step up its use of drones to patrol the southern border, lax security policies have left the collected data vulnerable, a new audit finds.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has hired Alma Cole, a former CBP IT security specialist, as its Chief Information Security Officer.

The Department of Homeland Security told Georgia’s Office of Secretary of State that the IP address associated with an attempted breach of the state office’s firewall was tracked an office in U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Amid calls to remove the company out of the government, the FBI has been telling private sector companies that Kaspersky is an unacceptable threat to national security.