Border officials in Canada have raised red flags over the potential for a hack on biometric data to compromise the country's security.Canada Border Services Agency officials told Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale they need to “keep pace with emerging security vulnerabilities” to systems governing who can enter the country.”A malicious cyberattack, for example, could infiltrate the back-end of a biometric identification system and produce false acceptances and/or rejections,” reads the document, obtained by the Toronto Star under access to information law.”Such attacks could disrupt border traffic flows and compromise the integrity of border controls. CBSA must protect Canadians from increasingly complex safety and security threats and continue to advance security monitoring in all technologies.”
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