Verkada Inc.: Difference between revisions

}}'''[[wikipedia:Verkada|Verkada Inc.]]''' was founded in 2016 by Filip Kaliszan joined by James Ren, Benjamin Bercovitz and Hans Robertson. Filip, James and Benjamin are all graduates of Stanford University where they created and sold their first company CourseRank. Hans Robertson was one of the co-founders of [[Cisco Systems, Inc.|Meraki]] (acquired by [[Cisco Systems, Inc.|Cisco]] in 2012.) The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Verkada |url=https://www.verkada.com/about/ |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=https://www.verkada.com/about/}}</ref>

On March 8, 2021, Verkada was hacked by an international group including maia arson crimew and calling themselves the "APT - 69420 Arson Cats," which gained access to their network for about 36 hours and collected about 5 gigabytes of data.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 Mar 2021 |title=Security camera hack exposes hospitals, workplaces, schools |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/security-camera-hack-exposes-hospitals-workplaces-schools/ |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=SeattleTimes}}</ref>

Initially, it was reported that the scope of the incident included live and recorded security camera footage from more than 150,000 cameras.<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 Mar 2021 |title=Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams |access-date=28 May 2025}}</ref> It was later reported that 97 customers' video and images data were accessed with 4,530 cameras across these organizations which the attackers may have accessed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Summary: March 9, 2021 Security Incident Report |url=https://www.verkada.com/security-update/report/ |access-date=28 May 2025}}</ref>

 

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