{"id":589,"date":"2019-11-27T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namorgy.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2019-11-27T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:47:17","slug":"how-the-nypds-fingerprint-database-got-shut-down-by-a-computer-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.namorgy.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/27\/how-the-nypds-fingerprint-database-got-shut-down-by-a-computer-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"How the NYPD&#8217;s fingerprint database got shut down by a computer virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/11\/nypd-nook-3.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618&#038;h=410&#038;crop=1\" class=\"iii-article-image\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0; max-width: 250px; max-height: 150px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"iii-article-excerpt\">\n  The NYPD&#8217;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 \u2014 and it transmitted an unidentified virus to 23 machines linked to the department&#8217;s LiveScan fingerprint-tracking system, the NYPD confirmed.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"iii-article-source\">\n  Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/24\/how-the-nypds-fingerprint-database-got-shut-down-by-a-computer-virus\/\">How the NYPD&#8217;s fingerprint database got shut down by a computer virus<\/a><br \/>\n  via nypost.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD&#8217;s high-tech fingerprint database was temporarily brought down by a bumbling contractor with a virus-infected mini computer, The Post has learned. 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