1TB of police body camera videos found lounging around public databases

guest · Jul 1, 2019

1TB of police body camera videos found lounging around public databases
Miscreants grabbed sensitive footage belonging to officers in Miami, elsewhere, it is feared
July 1, 2019
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/01/miami_police_bodycams_leaked/

In yet another example of absent security controls, troves of police body camera footage were left open to the world for anyone to siphon off, according to an infosec biz.

Jasun Tate, CEO of Black Alchemy Solutions Group, told The Register on Monday he and his team had identified about a terabyte of officer body cam videos, stored in unprotected internet-facing databases, belonging to the Miami Police Department, and cops in other US cities as well as places aboard.

"Vendors that provide services to police departments are insecure," said Tate, adding that he could not at present identify the specific vendors responsible for leaving the archive freely accessible to the public.

For at least the past few days, the footage was publicly accessible, we're told. Tate reckons the videos will have been copied from the databases by the hacker forum's denizens, and potentially sold on by now.
Tate posted about his findings on Saturday via Twitter. The links to databases he provided to The Register as evidence of his findings now return errors, indicating the systems' administrators have taken steps to remove the files from public view.
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