Security-Camera Data Breached By Hackers In US; Schools, Hospitals, Tesla Data Exposed: Report

One of the hackers said that the motive behind this is to show how video cameras are being used on a large-scale for surveillance and ease with which systems could be broken into.

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A group of hackers in the United States claim to have hacked into the massive security-camera data of startup Verkada Inc. located in Silicon Valley.

As per a report in Bloomberg, hackers got access to the live feed of over one and a half lakh security cameras installed in hospitals, companies, police departments, jails and schools. Companies whose camera data leaked include carmaker Tesla and software provider Cloudflare.

Not only this, the hackers also got access to watch video from inside women's psychiatric hospitals, health clinics and the CCTV footage of the offices of Verkada itself. Many cameras use facial recognition technology, which has also been breached by data hackers.

Hackers have said that they have access to the entire video archive of all Verkada customers.

A video shows Tesla's employees working on an assembly line in Shanghai's Tesla warehouse. Hackers have claimed that they had access to 222 cameras at Tesla's factories and warehouses.

One of the hackers said that this camera data has been hacked by a team of international hackers and the motive behind this is to show how video cameras are being used on a large-scale for surveillance and ease with which systems could be broken into.