Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

During December 2025, the video surveillance company Flock Safety inadvertently left the live streams and control panels of several cameras in their possession completely exposed on the network of the vast world of the Internet. This “oversight” involved 60 Condor cameras equipped with artificial intelligence, the archive of footage from the previous 30 days and the log files of the latter - anyone could have viewed and downloaded the aforementioned content, as well as changed the settings of the devices themselves.

Unlike the company's other models, these AI cameras are designed to capture pedestrian traffic, recording and tracking people, not vehicles. Equipped with pan-tilt-zoom technology, they can automatically zoom in on the faces of those walking within the frame; the entire incident therefore posed a significant risk to the privacy of all those who were filmed.

The vulnerability in question was originally discovered by YouTuber and technologist Benn Jordan and subsequently reported to security researcher Jon “GainSec” Gaines.