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

News Report · Dhruv Mehrotra; Joseph Cox · September 16, 2026

WIRED and 404 Media, September 2026: hackers who took a Flock camera off a pole recovered its logs. In about 21 days of activity it photographed roughly 50,200 vehicles and stored 1.6 million images.

According to our analysis, the camera’s logs recorded about 21 days of activity across several periods. During those windows, the device photographed roughly 50,200 vehicles and generated about 1.6 million images.

WIRED and 404 Media, September 2026: hackers who took a Flock camera off a pole recovered its logs. In about 21 days of activity it photographed roughly 50,200 vehicles and stored 1.6 million images.

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