Images from the video recordings of the hacked cameras were inserted into a tweeter (hashtag) #OperationPanopticon.
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“What if we put an end to surveillance capitalism in two days?” asked among the members of this hacking group “APT-69420 Arson Cats” among the tweeted images. “This is the vertex of the tip of the iceberg.”
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The hacker group claimed to have obtained confidential data from a high-level administrator account at Verkada, a Silicon Valley company whose platform runs online security systems.
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“We have disabled all internal administrator accounts to prevent any unauthorized access,” a Verkada spokesman said in response to a question from AFP.
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“Our homeland security team and homeland security firm are investigating the scale and scope of the problem, and we have informed law enforcement.”
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Verkada added that it has informed companies that use its platform.
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Bloomberg News reported that hackers had access to surveillance camera data abroad, including 222 cameras at Tesla’s factories and warehouses in Shanghai and software vendor Cloudfare cameras in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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The cyber attack was carried out in order to demonstrate how easy it is to break into a video surveillance system.
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