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Tesla Security Footage Leaked in Verkada Cameras Hack; Twitter Suspends Account of Hacker!
A group of hackers named Advanced Persistent Threat 69420 stated that they had accessed a massive pile of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc.
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A group of hackers named Advanced Persistent Threat 69420 stated that they had accessed a massive pile of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc. On Wednesday, Twitter has blocked a member of the said group who claimed responsibility for breaching the security camera company.
Twitter Blocked Member of Advance Persistent Threat 69420
Newsweek reported that the Twitter accoiunt of a member of the Advanced Persistent Threat 69420 Twitter has been suspended. The group member named Tillie Kottman was removed from the social media platform after the group disclosed how it had access to live feeds from more than 150,000 of Verkada s security cameras.
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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