A hacking group has gained access to the feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras used inside businesses, schools, police departments, hospitals, and well-known companies.
The security breach, which was first reported by Bloomberg, resulted in hackers being able to view live feeds of cameras managed by Verkada, a cloud-based startup which brags about using cameras to identify risks and help people and locations stay safe and secure.
A reporter at Bloomberg is said to have watched footage of staff at a Florida hospital tackling a man and pinning him to a bed, and in another video watched a handcuffed man being questioned by officers at a police station in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
As well as being able to access video and image data from the security cameras of Verkada’s customers, the hackers are also said to have accessed:
A list of client account administrators, including names and email addresses
A list of Verkada sales orders.
Verkada says that it has seen no evidence that the hackers were able to access users’ passwords or password hashes, or the company’s internal network, financial systems, or other business systems.In the wake of the attack, Twitter suspended the @nyancrimew account of Tillie Kottmann, a member of a hacking collective dubbed “APT 69420 Arson Cats,” who had claimed that they “had root shells inside the corporate networks of both CloudFlare and Okta”, boasting that if they wanted to they “could have probably owned half the internet in like a week.”
Switzerland-based Kottmann claimed that the hack had been achieved after Verkada left an internal development system exposed to the internet. From that, hackers were able to obtain login cre ..
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