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.
FK
Individual
Filip Kaliszan
Co-founder & CEO
Stanford computer science graduate who co-founded Verkada in 2016 and serves as CEO. He previously co-founded CourseRank, a class-data platform acquired by Chegg in 2010.
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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.