Britain’s privacy watchdog on Thursday called on Russia to take down a site showing hacked live feeds from thousands of homes and businesses around the world and warned it was planning regulatory action. Britain has been working on this for about 24 hours to deal with this problem as best as they can. Britain's ICO said 500 feeds have been targeted all over the world. The website, which is based in Russia, accesses the information by using the default login credentials, which are freely available online.Data watchdogs across the world have already drawn attention to the site, which is hacking 4,591 cameras in the US, 2,059 in France and 1,576 in the Netherlands.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Russian Website Spying on Webcams Worldwide
Britain’s privacy watchdog on Thursday called on Russia to take down a site showing hacked live feeds from thousands of homes and businesses around the world and warned it was planning regulatory action. Britain has been working on this for about 24 hours to deal with this problem as best as they can. Britain's ICO said 500 feeds have been targeted all over the world. The website, which is based in Russia, accesses the information by using the default login credentials, which are freely available online.Data watchdogs across the world have already drawn attention to the site, which is hacking 4,591 cameras in the US, 2,059 in France and 1,576 in the Netherlands.
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