Four people have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly hacking over 120,000 video cameras in homes and businesses and using the footage to make sexually exploitative materials for an overseas website.
Police announced the arrests on Sunday, saying the accused exploited the Internet Protocol (IP) cameras’ vulnerabilities, such as simple passwords.
A cheaper alternative to CCTV, IP cameras - otherwise known as home cameras - connect to a home internet network and are often installed for security or to monitor the safety of children and pets.
Locations of the hacked cameras reportedly included private homes, karaoke rooms, a Pilates studio and a gynaecologist’s clinic.
The most interesting part:
A statement released by South Korea’s National Police Agency revealed that the four suspects operated independently of one another, and did not conspire together.
Four people independently came up with this idea.
Heh, I have a Tapo (brand from SK) camera to watch the cats when nobody is home
why are there IP cameras in some if these places? i can imagine one in the waiting room of a doctors office, maybe, but an exam room?
the hell is going on.
I can’t find in the article that exam rooms are mentioned.
i guess i assumed something was going on … because like what kind of sexual exploitation video can be made from a waiting room dr’s office security feed?
maybe im naive and i don’t really want to find out.
