A recent research has exposed more than 40 * 10³ IoT cameras happily showing their feed and location to anyone who can browse and use search engines specialized in the indexing of the misconfigured devices.
More than 14 * 10³ are localised in the USA.
Read more here.
Note:
I know that there are more than a million of these cameras world wide misconfigured an open on just port 80 http not even TLS 443, with admin / admin as credentials 🪪
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/40000_iot_cameras_exposed/
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