According to a Bloomberg article released yesterday, Verkada has been hacked.

Verkada is a VSaaS (Video Surveillance as a Service) camera provider based in Silicon Valley. They provide cameras, often directly to consumers, that when connected to the internet, let the client view the live video and footage through Verkada’s cloud based service. On top of purchasing their cameras, Verkada charges a monthly/annual fee to use their cameras. If a client were to stop paying them, they would no longer be able to use the camera.

According to the article, Hackers breached thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jails, hospitals, schools and other vulnerable facilities. Here is a video with more information. This hack exposed the dangers of putting a camera system at these types of facilities on an internet facing network.