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The exposure was reported responsibly, and the hotel took 45 days to secure all devices. Had malicious actors discovered them first, the privacy breach would have caused lawsuits, regulatory fines, and catastrophic reputational damage. Inurl Indexframe Shtml Axis Video Server-adds 1
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