Verkada Hacker Charged With Wire Fraud, Identity Theft in U.S.

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A Swiss computer hacker who was involved in the intrusion of Verkada Inc., exposing surveillance footage from Tesla Inc., was charged by prosecutors in Seattle with conspiracy, wire fraud and identity theft.

Till Kottmann, 21, and their co-conspirators were accused of hacking dozens of companies and government entities since 2019 and posting private victim data of more than 100 entities on the web in a grand jury indictment released Thursday.