How the NYPD’s fingerprint database got shut down by a computer virus
The NYPD’s high-tech fingerprint database was temporarily brought down by a bumbling contractor with a virus-infected mini computer, The Post has learned. A contractor was setting up a digital display at the police academy in Queens on Oct. 2018, when he plugged in a tainted NUC mini-PC — and it transmitted an unidentified virus to 23 machines linked to the department’s LiveScan fingerprint-tracking system, the NYPD confirmed.
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