Newscan: Hackers breach 150,000 security cameras, exposing police, jails, schools, hospitals

Donny Jackson, Editor

March 13, 2021

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About the Author

Donny Jackson

Editor, Urgent Communications

Donny Jackson is director of content for Urgent Communications. Before joining UC in 2003, he covered telecommunications for four years as a freelance writer and as news editor for Telephony magazine. Prior to that, he worked for suburban newspapers in the Dallas area, serving as editor-in-chief for the Irving News and the Las Colinas Business News.

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