Many of the cameras are new-gen, with facial-recognition technology, which can identify and verify people captured on the footage.
People Analytics (PA) facial-recognition software allows you to automatically search for anyone room-to-room in a building or across a campus. The software considers everything like facial features, clothes, “apparent sex” and what they are carrying (backpack, purse, briefcase).
The hackers got access to 150,000 live-stream surveillance cameras inside prisons, hospitals, police departments, schools, and companies. Additionally, psychiatric hospitals, gyms, and women’s health clinics became victims.
APT69420 was able to access the network using high-level log-in credentials. After Kottmann and other malicious attackers obtained access to the video archives they began to leak it online.
The hacked companies include carmaker, Tesla, transport start-up Virgin Hyperloop, Equinox, and software provider Cloudflare. APT69420 even has access to view all the archived video footage from Verdana.
