In what cybersecurity experts are calling one of India’s most disturbing digital crime scandals to date, hackers breached the closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems of multiple hospitals and leaked thousands of intimate videos of women being examined in gynaecology wards. The stolen footage is then circulated and sold through international fetish networks, YouTube channels, and Telegram groups. According to a LinkedIn post by cybersecurity and privacy lawyer advocate Dr Prashant Mali , the attackers gained access to a hospital’s CCTV dashboard using a default administrator password—an all-too-common security lapse. Once inside, they reportedly downloaded hours of private footage and monetised it by selling individual clips for between Rs700 and Rs4,000 each. The operation w

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