Cybersecurity researcher Joshua Michael published a map revealing over 170,000 Flock surveillance cameras nationwide, significantly exceeding the company's publicly stated figure of 120,000, after discovering a data leak in Flock's publicly accessible servers. The map, presented at a Senate subcommittee hearing, includes 300,000 total surveillance devices and exposes Flock's expansive network tracking vehicle movements across the country.
Cybersecurity researcher Joshua Michael published a map revealing over 170,000 Flock surveillance cameras and 130,000 accompanying devices across the US, nearly 50,000 more than Flock's public claim of 120,000 cameras. Michael discovered the locations by accessing publicly leaked access tokens from Flock's servers and querying their database, then notified the company of the vulnerability before publishing his findings, which were cited in a Senate subcommittee hearing.