A local technology expert wants to warn you about a website, he says, contains a live feed from more than 73,000 unprotected internet-based surveillance cameras.
Ten of those cameras are right here in Bakersfield in both private homes and businesses.
It seems like this website is actually trying to do the right thing, that is, show people that if you have an IP camera in your home or business and you have never changed the default password, the feed is available for the entire world to see.
Antonio Moore, an I-T Administrator said, "When people buy their camera systems or their IP cameras they take it out of the box, they plug it in, and they use it. Some people don't understand that you need to change your passwords on them. Because right now on the site it even shows their default user name and default password...that's how they access those cameras. When the website started refreshing after it being so slow it started bringing up pictures...you could see families, their living rooms, their kids."
We're not giving out the website to protect the privacy of tens of thousands of people. But the bottom line is, Moore says, if you haven't changed your camera's default password, or if you're not sure, change it to be safe.
If you think your camera is on the site, we'd like to speak with you about it. Send us an e-mail 17News@KGET.com.