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.
so out of 133,000 compromised cameras (unless they were accessing the same cameras? not sure), there are about 1,200 (known) videos. basically, these people probably got some exploit that allowed access into a vast array of devices, 24/7. i doubt there are 133,000 cameras in SK which are all directed at a place people are having sex. Think about it for a second. They probably had to flick through the thousands and thousands of feeds to find anything even slightly salacious. we are talking millions of hours of footage.
Honestly I think whether the videos are sexual or not, it’s still an invasion of presumed private space. the manufacturers of the devices should have matching consequences as the perpetrators of the hacks because they were negligent in their responsibilities very likely distributing them on the misleading premise of being secure. this article is sensationalizing the pervert hackers instead of the shitty tech industrialists who popularize and facilitate people having cameras all over the gd place.