Police: No threat to city after ISIS logs onto G-TV webcam on Chardon Square
A news item posted on a Cleveland ABC affiliate’s website prompted Geauga County officials to release statements regarding the safety of Chardon square after ISIS is said to have logged onto the webcam there.
The story, posted on WEWS Channel 5’s site at 11:24 p.m. Nov. 4, states a San Francisco-based intelligence company called BLACKOPS Cyber, part of the privately held BLACKOPS Partners organization based in Washington, D.C., caught ISIS telecommunications “that contained links to several IP-based security cameras - including a surveillance camera in Chardon, Ohio,” which were intercepted on a secured wire channel.
According to the article, the camera in question is mounted over the Geauga Theater on Water Street, at the south end of the square.
The camera is owned and operated by Geauga Local Access Cable, Chardon Police Chief Scott Niehus confirmed in an e-mailed statement Nov. 5.
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