Security flaw placed 30 tears of DNA evidence at risk of hacking

Researchers found that widely used lab machines produced digital DNA files that are vulnerable to tampering.

A security weakness in the technology used by most of the nation’s crime labs to analyze DNA evidence exposed 30 years of crime files to the risk of being hacked, according to a group of forensic and computer scientists.

The researchers found that with the help of computer code written by widely available AI software, they could alter the data produced from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence without leaving any trace they had tampered with the records. The vulnerability is likely to have existed in the digital files produced by crime-lab machines since 1995, but recent technological advances make potential tampering much easier now, they said.

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