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Hackers Gain Access to Surveillance Camera Live Feeds at Hospitals, Prisons, Schools

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Cameras at Tesla and Cloudflare were also accessed due to a security blunder by Verkada.
(Photo by Tobias Tullius on Unsplash) You wouldn’t think it possible that a single hack could unlock access to live feeds from surveillance cameras installed in hospitals, prisons, schools, and police departments. That is, until you realize they all rely on the same cloud-connected system offered by one company. As Bloomberg reports, an international hacker collective targeted and successfully breached Verkada, a Silicon Valley startup focused on enterprise security camera systems. The company markets itself as offering a new approach and standard for enterprise security that’s software-first and cloud-focused. It seems this approach has been its undoing, though.

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