“Access to Tesla factories, prisons, police stations, etc.”
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A group of hackers hacked into accounts managed by a security camera service company in the United States to access real-time videos and recordings of hundreds of locations, including Tesla factories, mental hospitals, and prisons, Bloomberg and Reuters reported on the 10th.
According to this, Tilly Courtman, a member of the hacker group, said that it was to show how widespread surveillance by surveillance cameras is and how vulnerable such systems are. Revealed.
Vercada is a cloud-based U.S. security camera service startup that allows the company’s managed account to access 150,000 real-time surveillance cameras, Bloomberg explained.
Bloomberg said this account allowed a group of hackers to access thousands of cameras, including Tesla factories, prisons, police stations, schools, mental hospitals, and private hospitals dealing with women.
He explained that among the videos presented by this group of hackers as evidence, a man in handcuffs was being interrogated at a police station in Massachusetts, USA.
In addition, workers working in a Tesla factory in Shanghai, China, were also presented as an example.
In addition, security cameras such as Madison County Prison in Alabama, Halifax Health Hospital in Florida, Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital in Arizona, Equinox, a fitness chain, and Cloudflare, a software company, were reported to have gained access from a group of hackers.
Reuters reported that there were hundreds of business sites that had been accessed for two days, citing a member who was involved in the hacking.
After the news of the hacking, Verkada closed the management account in question, and it is reported that the access of the hacker group is currently suspended.
Vercada said, “The security team is investigating the scale and scope of this problem,” and “to prevent unauthorized access, all internal security camera management account functions have been disabled.”
Bloomberg said that the hacker group, who revealed the fact of the hacking of the Vercada management account, claimed to have also hacked Intel and Nissan Motors in the past, and suggested freedom of information, anti-capitalism, and curiosity as reasons for their activities.
/ Reporter Kihyuk Kim [email protected]
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