A US hacker collective has claimed to have tapped into footage from 150 000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, carmaker Tesla and other sites to expose 'the surveillance state'.
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Surveillance footage from companies such as Tesla as well as hospitals, prisons, police departments and schools was accessed in the hack.
Hackers claim to have breached Silicon Valley startup Verkada to gain unauthorized access to live feeds of 150,000 security cameras. They claim, the hack gave them widespread access to surveillance footage within companies such as Tesla and Cloudflare, as well as hospitals, companies, law-enforcement departments, schools and prisons.
The group provided video footage from cameras managed by San Mateo, Calif.-based Verkada to Bloomberg to prove the success of their breach, according to a report published on the news outlet’s website. Verkada provides and manages a web-based network of security cameras to customers and claims to be a more secure and scalable alternative to on-premises solutions for video surveillance.
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Security researchers say they were able to remotely access Verkada cameras used by numerous organizations, including at this Tesla warehouse in Shanghai.
Security researchers say vulnerabilities in a Silicon Valley startup s internet-accessible surveillance cameras could have allowed them to gain full, remote access to all customers networks. But at least some customers dispute that the flaws could have been exploited to allow ethical hackers - or others - to pivot inside their network.
San Mateo, California-based Verkada, which manages and maintains 150,000 remotely accessible surveillance cameras for numerous organizations, says it s investigating the remote access to its devices.
Tillie Kottmann, a Switzerland-based researcher and self-described member of the APT 69420 Arson Cats group - a tongue-in-cheek riff on the names cybersecurity firms assign to nation-state and cybercrime hackers they track - says the group on Monday was able to gain administrator-le