Global hackers raid Verkada’s clients’ video surveillance data

Global hackers raid Verkada’s clients’ video surveillance data | #TpromoCom | More than 150K #security #cameras are breached in a bold cyber-attack on the cloud-based platform (Steve Lasky) https://bit.ly/3rHr1tC

In yet another jolting reminder of the potential vulnerability of end-point security devices in general and video surveillance cameras in particular, Verkada, a cloud-managed and edge-based software platform that integrates video security cameras, access control solutions and other sensor-rich technology, found itself the victim yesterday of a massive breach of its video network as more than 150,000 surveillance cameras were hacked.

A group of hackers accessed and published live video feeds from the likes of Tesla and Cloudflare, along with videos and images apparently taken from a variety of other Verkada clients, such as offices, warehouses, factories jails, psychiatric wards, banks, and schools. Bloomberg News, which first reported the breach, said footage viewed by a reporter showed staffers at Florida hospital Halifax Health tackling a man and pinning him to a bed. (read more)

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