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A stolen Flock Safety license-plate camera yielded roughly 1.6 million
images after hackers physically removed and reverse-engineered the
device, but a former Secret Service cybercrime expert says the incident
does not appear to have compromised Flock's broader cloud network.

Jason Brown, director of customer advisory and counter-fraud lead at
threat intelligence firm iCOUNTER, spent 25 years with the U.S. Secret
Service and specialized in cybercrime.

Brown told FOX Business that the distinction between accessing one
physically stolen camera and breaching Flock's network is critical.

"The biggest thing I keep hammering at home [is] that Flock was never compromised," Brown said. "So there's never been a large dump of
information out of their network."

According to WIRED, hackers physically removed a Flock camera from above
a roadway and reverse-engineered it. They reportedly discovered
encrypted and unencrypted portions of the device's storage and recovered
an encryption key stored on the camera that allowed them to unlock
additional data.

"This was a situation where somebody physically had access to a camera
because they stole it off of a pole, took it home, and then did backward engineering on that camera," Brown said.

"That did not give them the capability to actually log into the cloud
portion of Flock, and nothing in the cloud of Flock proper was
accessed."

According to WIRED's analysis, the recovered logs covered roughly 21
days of activity, including 1.6 million images, 50,200 vehicles and
27,000 short video clips.

Flock cameras capture images and short videos of passing vehicles, which
are transmitted to the company's cloud infrastructure for processing and
can then be searched by authorized law enforcement users.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/former-secret-service-cybercrime- expert-weighs-privacy-hackers-breach-stolen-flock-camera


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