Hackers Have Managed To Breach Security Cameras Of Tesla To Access Live Feeds
Hackers Have Managed To Breach Security Cameras Of Tesla To Access Live Feeds. Hackers cracked a huge trove of data collected by a Silicon Valley start-up and got access to live feeds of 150,000 security cameras inside Tesla, schools, hospitals and prisons, reports say. The hacking group breached Verkada Inc. to get access to the feeds, which also included police stations, women’s health clinics, psychiatric hospitals, gyms, and the start-up itself, according to Bloomberg.
According to Yahoo News, Tillie Kottmann, one of the members of the international hacker collective that breached the company said that “the hack was done to show how widespread Verkada’s security cameras are and how easily they can be hacked. It’s just wild how I can just see the things we always knew are happening, but we never got to see.”
The hack let the group access 222 cameras in factories and warehouses used by Elon Musk’s Tesla electric car company. This also included accessing footage of workers at a Tesla production line in the company’s Shanghai, China. Another feed showed the hackers police in Stoughton, Massachusetts, interrogating a man in handcuffs. They also got into the 333 cameras set up in Madison County Jail in Huntsville, Alabama, and the 17 cameras installed at Graham County detention centre in Arizona. The hackers also accessed the security video feeds from the re-built Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
“We have disabled all internal administrator accounts to prevent any unauthorised access. Our internal security team and external security firm are investigating the scale and scope of this issue, and we have notified law enforcement,” a Verkada spokesperson told The Independent in a statement.
Verkada is a business that brings the ease of use that consumer security solutions provide, to the levels of scale and protection that businesses and organisations require. By building high-end hardware on an intuitive, cloud-based software platform, modern enterprises are able to run safer, smarter buildings across all of their locations. Verkada makes video security limitlessly smart, scalable, and simple to use. Powerful, edge-based analytics designed to bring simplicity and speed to investigations. Verkada intelligently analyses footage in real-time, allowing users to quickly search and filter footage by people, vehicles, and more.
