New Delhi: With one universal password, the hacker keyed into a surveillance nightmare of the country, which turned hospital CCTV pictures into illegal pornography. The breach began in January 2024 at Payal Maternity Hospital in Rajkot, Gujarat, when hackers exploited brute-force tools to gain access to live gynaecological examination footage. They retrieved more than 50,000 clips during a period of over nine months on at least 80 hacked CCTV dashboards in 20 states, with Pune, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Surat being some of them. The patients, students, workers, and residents of hospitals, schools, factories, cinemas, and personal houses were all victims.

Parit Dhameliya, a BCom graduate, and an accomplice in the hacking, Rohit Sisodiya, were arrested by the investigators in February 2

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