A group of hackers say 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.
Some of the more notable targets include Tesla factory cameras and security cameras deployed by Cloudflare. The hackers also apparently have access to archived video from these sources. Verkada has responded by disabling all internal administrator accounts something it probably should have done back when it was making news for doing the same thing, only without the participation of outside hackers.
Last year, a sales director on the company s sales team abused their access to these cameras to take and post photos of colleagues in a Slack channel called #RawVerkadawgz where they made sexually explicit jokes about women who worked at the company, according to a report in IPVM, which Motherboard independently verified and obtaine