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.

Hackers accessed live feeds from 150,000 Verkada cameras inside hospitals, jails, schools, police stations, and Tesla — exposing how centralized the footage had become.
Verkada staff used the company's own office cameras and face tools to harass female colleagues — a preview of how such analytics can be abused.
Reporting revealed Toka markets government tools to break into security cameras and IoT devices, with capabilities that in some accounts extend to altering footage — a direct threat to evidence integrity and privacy.