Tens of thousands of hacked security videos are being sold online. Many are fairly boring, showing people just sitting around their homes or hotels. Photo: Shutterstock Tens of thousands of hacked security videos are being sold online. Many are fairly boring, showing people just sitting around their homes or hotels. Photo: Shutterstock
Tens of thousands of hacked security videos are being sold online. Many are fairly boring, showing people just sitting around their homes or hotels. Photo: Shutterstock
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Hackers are stealing videos from private security cameras and selling them as home video tapes

  • Videos can cost as little as US$3 and the perpetrators offer ‘set meal’ packages with multiple live streams 
  • One man claims 8,000 videos were shared in one group chat within 20 days in February 

Topic |   China Society
Mandy Zuo
Mandy Zuo in Shanghai

Updated: 11:49am, 31 Mar, 2021

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Tens of thousands of hacked security videos are being sold online. Many are fairly boring, showing people just sitting around their homes or hotels. Photo: Shutterstock Tens of thousands of hacked security videos are being sold online. Many are fairly boring, showing people just sitting around their homes or hotels. Photo: Shutterstock
Tens of thousands of hacked security videos are being sold online. Many are fairly boring, showing people just sitting around their homes or hotels. Photo: Shutterstock
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