South Korean military personnel said More than 1,300 Chinese-made surveillance cameras have been removed from military bases, including one near the North Korean border, after South Korea belatedly discovered the cameras were capable of transmitting information to China, Yonhap News Agency reported Friday.
The official also asserted that “no data was actually leaked” from the hacked cameras, and that they were primarily used to monitor training grounds and base perimeters, not for more sensitive missions such as monitoring the North Korean border.
According to Yonhap News Agency, a South Korean company that sold 1,300 cameras to the military is suspected of lying about the country of origin, and the military is considering suing the company over the mislabeling.
Sometime in late July, South Korean military and intelligence officials noticed their military bases littered with potentially compromised Chinese-made equipment. Closer inspection revealed that the cameras were “designed to connect to specific Chinese servers and transmit recorded footage externally.”
Similar Happened In Australia last year, the Department of Defence and Department of Foreign Affairs found that the Chinese-made cameras posed a security risk.
In March, the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee completion An investigation revealed that some of the Chinese-made cranes installed at U.S. ports were equipped with mysterious cell phone modems that were not part of the original design specifications or installation contracts.
