Clearview AI, Facial Recognition Company, Says Client List Was Stolen

If I had to guess, spear phishing is probably the most likely suspect, but there are a million ways for corps to lose data, from rogue employees, to sharing files over a public FTP server, to having an employees creds reused and in a data breach.

>The firm drew national attention when The New York Times ran a front-page story about its work with law-enforcement agencies. The Times reported that the company scraped 3 billion images from the internet, including from Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo. That process violated Facebook’s terms of service, according to the paper. It also created a resource that drew the attention of hundreds of law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, according to that report. In a follow-up story, the Times reported that law-enforcement officials have used the tools to identify children who are victims of sexual abuse. One anonymous Canadian law-enforcement official told the paper that Clearview was “the biggest breakthrough in the last decade” for investigations of those crimes.

Yeah hit me with it.