Quote:Hackers claim to have breached Silicon Valley startup Verkada to gain unauthorized access to live feeds of 150,000 security cameras. They claim, the hack gave them widespread access to surveillance footage within companies such as Tesla and Cloudflare, as well as hospitals, companies, law-enforcement departments, schools and prisons.
 
The group provided video footage from cameras managed by San Mateo, Calif.-based Verkada to Bloomberg to prove the success of their breach, according to a report published on the news outlet’s website. Verkada provides and manages a web-based network of security cameras to customers and claims to be a more secure and scalable alternative to on-premises solutions for video surveillance.
 
The breach represents a broad vision of the privacy and security violations that can occur if video surveillance footage falls into the wrong hands. It also is very likely to put Verkada in regulatory and legal hot water once investigations are complete, security experts said.
 
The hacker collective, which call themselves “Advanced Persistent Threat 69420,” claimed they accessed security cameras from inside Florida hospital Halifax Health, with some of the footage viewed by Bloomberg appearing to show eight hospital staffers tackling a man and then holding him down on a bed.
 
Other footage viewed by Bloomberg appeared to be inside a Tesla factory in Shanghai, showing workers on an assembly line. The hackers claimed they accessed 222 cameras displaying activity inside Tesla factories and warehouses.