Security News > 2021 > March > Breach Exposes Verkada Security Camera Footage at Tesla, Cloudflare

Hackers claim to have breached Silicon Valley startup Verkada to gain unauthorized access to live feeds of 150,000 security cameras.

The breach represents a broad vision of the privacy and security violations that can occur if video surveillance footage falls into the wrong hands.

The hackers told the publication that they also gained access to the security cameras of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed more than 20 people in 2012; 330 security cameras inside the Madison County Jail in Huntsville, Alabama; cameras of multiple locations of the luxury gym chain Equinox; surveillance footage from the ICU of Wadley Regional Medical Center, a hospital in Texarkana, Texas; and cameras at Tempe St. Luke's Hospital, in Arizona, according to the report.

"Our internal security team and external security firm are investigating the scale and scope of this issue, and we have notified law enforcement," the spokesperson said.

No matter what the company's findings reveal, Verkada will surely face tough questions and scrutiny as well as regulatory investigations and potential lawsuits over the incident, which once again demonstrates the security issues with making sensitive data accessible on cloud-based networks, observed Rick Holland, CISO at security firm Digital Shadows.

The Department of Health and Human Services will probably launch an investigation into Verkada and the breach for HIPAA/HITECH violations, as surveillance footage can be considered protected health information, Holland said.

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https://threatpost.com/breach-verkada-security-camera-tesla-cloudflare/164635/