WHAT WE KNOW
(Bloomberg) A group of hackers says they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons, and schools.
• Companies whose footage was exposed include carmaker Tesla and software provider Cloudflare.
• Hackers were able to view video from inside women’s health clinics, psychiatric hospitals and the offices of Verkada itself.
• hackers also breached the hospital’s facial-recognition technology that identifies and categorizes people captured on the footage, the hackers say they also have access to the full video archive of all Verkada customers.
HEADLINES:
• Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
• Hackers access surveillance cameras at Tesla, Cloudflare, banks, more
GO DEEPER
🚨🚨BREAKING: Hackers broke into security camera firm Verkada, gaining access to 150,000 surveillance cameras in places like prisons, police departments, psychiatric clinics, hospitals and Tesla factories in China – Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/Lo23NpSpM3
— CIA-Simulation Warlord 🇺🇸🦈🇺🇸 (@zerosum24) March 9, 2021
— CIA-Simulation Warlord 🇺🇸🦈🇺🇸 (@zerosum24) March 9, 2021
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