Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works

Hackers removed Flock Safety cameras, dumped their storage, recovered an on-device encryption key, and unlocked videos and still images of thousands of vehicle detections (over a million images and multiple weeks of logs); the material—showing license plates, vehicle attributes, and people—was shared with media organizations and a transparency nonprofit, highlighting privacy risks and broad agency access to Flock’s national camera network.