The HIIDE and SEEK II devices were made to search biometric files stored on government servers. Now, the military database of fingerprints and iris scans is for sale on ebay.
The shoebox-shaped gadget, which can scan irises and take fingerprints, was priced at $149.95 on eBay. Matthias Marx, a German security researcher, successfully bid $68 on the item, and when it was delivered to his Hamburg home in August, it was more than what the listing had indicated.
2,632 people's names, nationalities, pictures, fingerprints, and iris scans were stored on the device's memory card.
The majority of the individuals on the database, which The New York Times examined, were from Afghanistan and Iraq. Others appeared to be individuals who had collaborated with the U.S. government or had just been stopped at checkpoints, but many of them were documented terrorists and wanted people. The Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit, or SEEK II, had last been utilized in the summer of 2012 close to Ka...