At least 150,000 cameras were compromised as part of an attack on Verkada. Swiss hacker and member of the hacking collective APT-69420 Arson Cats Tillie Kottmann claimed credit for the attack. The #OperationPanopticon hashtag references the panopticon, a prison architecture that allows a supervisor to have full view of its inmates without them knowing that theyre being watched. The attack exposed the inner workings of hospitals, banks, police departments, banks; police departments; prisons; schools; and companies like Tesla and Cloudflare.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/iot/2021/03/150000-verkada-security-cameras-hacked-to-make-a-point/