From RT.com…..
A hacker collective claims to have gained access to roughly 150,000 security cameras, including in jails, hospitals and even a Tesla factory. The intruders say they found the login and password to a ‘super admin’ account online.
The hacktivists targeted Silicon Valley security firm Verkada, which sells surveillance cameras that users can manage through an online portal, breaching a “Super Admin” account that gave access to feeds for all of the company’s customers, according to a Tuesday Bloomberg report. In addition to more than 200 cameras in Tesla factories and warehouses, the hackers viewed security footage from schools, hospitals – including psychiatric wards – and a number of jails and prisons. Verkada’s own offices also fell victim to the breach.
A software engineer claiming to have taken part in the hack, Tillie Kottmann, told Bloomberg the breach “exposes just how broadly we’re being surveilled, and how little care is put into at least securing the platforms used to do so, pursuing nothing but profit,” adding that the admin’s username and password were found on the open web.
