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Prison for cybersecurity expert selling private videos from inside 400,000 homes (www.bitdefender.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A Korean cybersecurity expert has been sentenced to prison for illegally accessing and distributing private videos from vulnerable "wallpad" cameras in 400,000 private households.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You could use thermostat data to get a record of when a person is and isn't in their home, which is also pretty sensitive information