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Photo: Martin Bureau (Getty Images) A hacker group claims to have recently broken into the networks of cloud-based surveillance firm Verkada, a Silicon Valley startup that sells and manages security systems to thousands of organizations across the country. Advertisement Once inside the firm’s walls, the hackers were able to use its 150,000 live camera feeds to peer into the internal workings of countless organizations, including medical facilities, psychiatric hospitals, jails, schools and police departments, and even large companies like Tesla, Equinox and Cloudflare, according to a report...

One hacker decried "nonexistent and irresponsible" lack of security on cameras used inside hospitals, prisons and major companies.

While the hack doesn't pose the kind of national security threat as the more sophisticated SolarWinds campaign​, it can be an existential threat for victims who didn't install the patch in time.

Read more about White House says closely following Microsoft email breach by China hackers on Business Standard. The US government said it is closely following the breach of a Microsoft email application reportedly carried out by Chinese hackers, calling it an "active threat" with a "large number" of victims.

© Getty Images As cyber investigators continue to examine the SolarWinds attack, a more complicated picture of what actually happened has begun to emerge. The Acting Director of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Brandon Wales, said that federal investigators had found Russian intelligence agents alleged to have been behind the SolarWinds hack actually used a variety of techniques well beyond the eponymous compromised software. Wales added that Russian agents creatively used multiple hacking methods, so many in fact that the incidents “should not be tho...