The question of image recreation from templates is a complicated one. The industry has long held that one of the primary benefits from a security and privacy perspective is that the image (or, more broadly, identifiable data) cannot be recreated or regenerated from the template. Since images cannot be recreated, the logic goes, a hacked database cannot be used to manufacture a fingerprint or other biometric for hostile purposes such as placing a fingerprint at a crime scene or logging into a private network.