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
Hans Robertson
Co-founder & Executive Chairman
Executive Chairman and co-founder of Verkada who previously co-founded enterprise networking company Meraki, acquired by Cisco in 2012 for about $1.2 billion. He holds computer science degrees from MIT.
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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.