Breach
150,000 cameras breached
2021Hackers accessed live feeds from 150,000 Verkada cameras inside hospitals, jails, schools, police stations, and Tesla — exposing how centralized the footage had become.
Cloud Video Surveillance
Verkada
Verkada sells hybrid-cloud security cameras and access control managed from one dashboard, with analytics that can search footage by face and physical attributes. It is deployed across schools, hospitals, businesses, and government facilities.
◍ San Mateo, CaliforniaEst. 2016
People & money behind it
Agencies & customers
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Abuses & incidents
Abuse
Employees used cameras to harass women
2020Verkada staff used the company's own office cameras and face tools to harass female colleagues — a preview of how such analytics can be abused.
Further reading
- ↳Verkada raises at $3.2B valuation — Forbes, 2022