AHMEDABAD: A single default password - "admin123" - was all it took to unlock a national nightmare. What began at Payal Maternity Hospital in Rajkot as a case of careless digital housekeeping spiralled into one of India's most disturbing cyber scandals. Hackers breached the hospital's CCTV system through its default admin login, stole hours of intimate footage of women being examined in the gynaecology ward, and fed it into an international porn fetish network for profit. The access logs spanned nearly a year, from Jan 2024 through early Dec 2024, until the perpetrators were arrested this Feb. The hackers were able to steal at least 50,000 clips over nine months from across the country.

Investigators: 80 CCTV dashboards compromised The scam came to light after teaser clips from th

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