The Dallas City Council will meet with lawyers in closed session Wednesday to discuss a "potential data breach" within the police department. The website, Distributed Denial of Secrets, posted more than 600 hours of video from police helicopters and drones last week.
The video came from Dallas Police and Georgia State patrol. A co-founder says the video was submitted by an anonymous hacker that targets departments using unsecured cloud storage. She says she does not know why the two departments were targeted.
The Dallas News is reporting Dallas Police are now investigating how the video was obtained. The department says it cannot confirm how much video and other information was breached.
A city IT employee was fired in August after accidentally deleting eight million archived police videos, pictures and other information. The city says the employee deleted the files while trying to transfer them from cloud storage to a city server.
Parts of those files were able to be recovered, but more than four million files were permanently erased. Police and the Dallas County District Attorney's office say 17,500 cases may have been affected, and the city's IT department has been looking through individual computers to try to recover files that were saved locally.
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