The hacker Till Kottmann (aka “deletescape”) has been indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft by the US Department of Justice.
Till Kottmann, a swiss hacker who goes by the name of “deletescape” on most of their social media, was indicted yesterday (18th, March 2021) by a grand jury in the Western District of Washington for computer intrusion and identity and data theft activities from 2019 till the present.
The indictment states that Kottmann and their co-conspirators have hacked dozens of companies and government entities and posted the private victim data of more than 100 targets on the internet.
Kottmann used new hacks as achievements to get into contact with journalists over social media regarding their computer intrusions and data theft, states the US Department of Justice.
The indictment also includes various examples of hacks Kottmann has committed including the massive Verkada hack in which they gained access to footage of 150,000+ security cameras belonging to prisons, hospitals, warehouses, and offices of top firms like Tesla and Cloudflare.
Hackers also viewed inside footage of women’s health clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and Verkada offices. Hackers claimed that they had access to 222 cameras in Tesla factories and warehouses.
It is however worth noting that according to Bloomberg, more than 100 Verkada Inc. employees already had access to thousands of cameras used by its customers whilst they were unaware that the company could peer through their cameras.
On the other hand, Kottmann claimed that they conducted this hack in order to prove a point of how commonly Verkada’s security cameras are used and how easy it is to hack them.
The hacker further stated that there were sev ..
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