Verkada
Hackers breached Verkada and accessed its customers security cameras, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
They gained access to 150,000 cameras inside places such as Tesla, Cloudflare, hospitals, and jails.
Some cameras let the hackers access Verkada customers separate corporate networks.
A hacking collective claims to have breached security company Verkada, giving them access to live and archived footage from 150,000 security cameras inside Verkada customers facilities as well as its own offices, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
According to Vice News, around 24,000 unique organizations use Verkada s software, including private residences, malls, restaurants, nonprofits, and airports, revealing the extensive use of facial recognition and surveillance software.
The hacking collective claims to have gained access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras, including ones in hospitals, jails, schools, gyms and companies.
Hackers breach thousands of security cameras in US, exposing Tesla, jails, hospitals
Bloomberg
March 10 |
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March 10, 2021
Video footage was captured from Sequoia-backed start-up Verkada A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley start-up Verkada, gaining access to live feeds of 1.5 lakh surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools in the US.
Companies whose footage was exposed include carmaker Tesla and software provider Cloudflare Inc. In addition, hackers were able to view video from inside women’s health clinics, psychiatric hospitals and the offices of Verkada itself. Some of the cameras, including in hospitals, use facial-recognition technology to identify and categorise people captured on the footage. The hackers say they also have access to the full video archive of all Verkada customers.
Hackers breached security company Verkada and accessed 150,000 cameras inside Tesla, hospitals, and jails
Tyler SonnemakerMar 10, 2021, 06:17 IST
Verkada makes enterprise security software and hardware.Verkada
Hackers breached
They gained access to 150,000 cameras inside places such as
Tesla, Cloudflare, hospitals, and jails.
Some cameras let the hackers access Verkada customers separate corporate networks.
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hacking collective claims to have breached security company Verkada, giving them access to live and archived footage from 150,000 security cameras inside Verkada customers facilities as well as its own offices, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
According to Vice News, around 24,000 unique organizations use Verkada s software, including private residences, malls, restaurants, nonprofits, and airports, revealing the extensive use of facial recognition and surveillance software.
March 10, 2021
Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc, a closed-circuit TV and camera management platform, was hacked by a group of hackers, revealing thousands of hours of footage from over 150,000 surveillance cameras, Bloomberg reported. Some of the company’s clients, which includes hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools, were using a facial-recognition tool to track and monitor their employee’s behaviour among other things.
Verkada provided its services to companies like Tesla, Cloudfare, Halifax Health and Madison County Jail in Alabama, all of whose camera feeds were compromised as part of the hack. The hackers claim to have access to the entire video archive belonging to all of Verkada’s clients. They said that the intention of the hack was to see how pervasive video surveillance is and the ease with which these systems could be compromised. The hackers found that Verkada had implemented a facial-recognition technology, which in the case of hospitals