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
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
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China Society
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