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.
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Individual
Benjamin Bercovitz
Co-founder
Stanford graduate and co-founder of Verkada whose background is in machine learning and computer vision. He collaborated with Kaliszan and Ren on CourseRank before the trio founded Verkada in 2016.
On the record
Companies
Incidents in their orbit
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.