03-11-2021, 05:43 AM
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The company hacked as many as 150,000 security cameras installed in schools, hospitals and businesses.Hackers claimed it violated Verkada, a security company that supplies cameras to companies including Tesla.Bloomberg reports feeds from prisons, psychiatric hospitals, clinics and Verkada's offices have been hijacked.Verkada told the BBC it was "investigating the size and extent of the issue".The company added that it had notified law enforcement. However, it was not confirmed the size and scale of the attacks.Reuters also reported that shipping startup Virgin Hyperloop was among the list of affected user accounts revealed by hackers.
Software provider Cloudflare that it had been alerted to "a handful of" potentially compromised cameras at offices around the world.A Verkada camera in a Florida hospital, which Bloomberg reported to be seen, showed eight workers holding a man and pinned him to the bed.Another video shows officers at a police station in Staffton, Massachusetts, questioning a handcuffed man.One inside a Tesla warehouse in Shanghai shows someone working on the assembly line.is not able to independently censor these videos.
'Too much fun'
Hackers also said they had access to a security camera at สมัครสมาชิกสล็อต Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where the gunman killed more than 20 people in 2012.Speaking to Bloomberg, Tille Kottmann claimed to have been credited with hacking Verkada's system.Kottmann said the reason for the hack was "So much curiosity, the struggle for freedom of information and anti-intellectual property, a lot of anti-capitalism, anarchic indication - and it's too fun not to do that.There were reports of simple attacks related to account usage. "Super Admin" to access Verkada.Bloomberg said that after they contacted Verkada, the hackers had lost access to the video feed and archive.A Verkada spokesperson:
We have disabled all internal admin accounts to prevent unauthorized access.Our internal security team and external security companies are investigating the size and extent of this issue, and we have informed law enforcement.The company has also established a support line for their clients.Meanwhile, CloudflareThis afternoon we were informed that Verkada's security camera systems monitoring a number of key entry points and main thoroughfares in Cloudflare offices may have been compromised.These cameras are housed in a few offices that have been officially shut down for months.Tesla has not yet commented.The breach came after more details of the hacks in Microsoft Exchange began to emerge.Attacks use a previously unknown flaw in email software and sometimes steal passwords to steal information from a target's network.
We have disabled all internal admin accounts to prevent unauthorized access.Our internal security team and external security companies are investigating the size and extent of this issue, and we have informed law enforcement.The company has also established a support line for their clients.Meanwhile, CloudflareThis afternoon we were informed that Verkada's security camera systems monitoring a number of key entry points and main thoroughfares in Cloudflare offices may have been compromised.These cameras are housed in a few offices that have been officially shut down for months.Tesla has not yet commented.The breach came after more details of the hacks in Microsoft Exchange began to emerge.Attacks use a previously unknown flaw in email software and sometimes steal passwords to steal information from a target's network.