Thieves Hacking Security Cameras?

The FBI is investigating fifteen store robberies in eleven states, committed via phone and internet. The perpetrators hack the store's security system so they can observe their victims. They then make customers take their clothes off and get the store to wire money. From the article, "A telephone caller making a bomb threat to a Hutchinson, Kan., grocery store kept more than 100 people hostage, demanding they disrobe and that the store wire money to his bank account. ... officials were investigating whether the caller was out of state and may have hacked into the store's security system. "If they can access the Internet, they can get to anything," Hutchinson Police Chief Dick Heitschmidt said. "Anyone in the whole world could have access, if that's what really happened.""

Hacking security cameras, huh?

[EveryNickIsTaken]

I'm sure Jack Thompson will blame this on BioShock.

Voyeurism + Crank Calls = Profit

[Anonymous Coward]

/b/ does robbery.

Now THAT'S what I call social engineering.

Get the RIAA in on the case!

[threaded]

Why don't these stores copyright their video feed and then let loose the RIAA on the perps. That'll stop 'em!

Is the footage on YouTube?

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

He did not record the security camera footage and upload it to You Tube? Dumb idiot. This is what dumbing down of America has done to the respectable profession of robbery.

Re:Duh

[morgan_greywolf]

d00d! 1t t0ta11y w0rk3d!!! 1 g00gl3d 4 s3cur1ty c4mz n i t0t4lly pwn3d th3m! C? !!!

Re:Get the RIAA in on the case!

[djones101]

That would be the MPAA. RIAA would be if the store's music that is constantly interrupted by screaming cashiers showed up on the Internet.

Re:CCTV

[MyLongNickName]

How else do you outsource your security work to India?

I was fooled too

[clovis]

My wife came in a found me sitting on the floor in my underwear. I had only skimmed the slashdot article and thought that it was a disrobe-or-get-bombed threat against me. It seems that the Slashdot is only _reporting_ a bomb threat and isn't actually going to blow us up.
Also, would CowboyNeal please send back my $3,000?

Re:CCTV

[Ajehals]

They haven't had a problem since.

Is that on account of no longer having a business as it was destroyed by fire?

Another law broken?

[Ukab the Great]

I'm sure that in some states, 100 naked people in a store legally counts as an orgy.

Re:Dumber than dumb

[LarsWestergren]

Has there ever been a more stupid quote than:
"If they can access the Internet, they can get to anything," Hutchinson Police Chief Dick Heitschmidt said. "Anyone in the whole world could have access, if that's what really happened."

Yes. I think "No, it's not loaded! Here, I'll prove it to you!" beats it.

Re:Dumber than dumb

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

"hackers on steroids"
"internet hate machine"
Wait until these stores get dogs and curtains, than we'll be REALLY fucked.

They were asking for this...

[cablepokerface]

I usually have Security Expert I & II equipped, so I have significantly less alarm and overload tiles. Every camera I see I take a few pictures of because then I can see the 'weaknesses' of the camera.

Of course when I have positioned myself directly under the camera I can't see me anymore and if it hangs too high I can just jump up and finish my hack in mid air.

Unfortunatly, the guards are a bitch. For them it always seems to be "bring your daugther to work day".

Other then that, hacking cameras is a breeze, like I said, with just a simple minigame they are asking for it.

Re:Duh

[CmdrGravy]

Have you tried

"Hi, I am ze plumber. I haf com to examine ze pipework, ver can I place my tooool ? It is ver huge and I can't keep it in here much longer"

Re:Dumber than dumb

[Anonymous Coward]

Who but an Moron would comply ?

A nudist who's glad to have a good excuse this time? :-)

Re:CCTV

[Anonymous Coward]

Well as this seems to work, we can now outsource our crime to India also.

Re:Dumber than dumb

[brian.gunderson]

You just slashdotted a whole lotta webcams.

Re:Dumber than dumb

[lordofthechia]

From the article (Piro is the manager)....

"He then demanded that one of Piros' fingers be cut off for every hour his demands were not met, and another employee got a butcher knife on his orders"

Anybody wanna take bets on who was the first person fired after this incident?

Re:Suggested Response To The Bomb Threat

[j00r0m4nc3r]

1. Open store
2. Receive bomb threat
3. Ignore demands, find bomb
4. Sell bomb on black market
5. Profit!!!
6. Goto Step2

Re:Sparks

[MillionthMonkey]

link?