Insecurity Cameras: Ring Customers Get Hacked
Business Wars Daily
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4.6 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today is Tuesday, January 7, and we’re looking at Ring vs. Wyze Labs.
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| 1:09.6 | People buy security cameras for peace of mind, but for some |
| 1:12.5 | customers, recent hacks of one popular security camera have made that choice anything but peaceful. |
| 1:19.5 | You may have heard the news back in early December that a hacker broke into the ring video |
| 1:23.8 | security system of a Mississippi customer, took over the camera's two-way microphone |
| 1:28.6 | and scared an eight-year-old girl half to death. The camera in her bedroom began talking to her |
| 1:34.7 | with a hacker saying he was Santa Claus and urging her to destroy her room, prompting her to |
| 1:40.6 | scream in terror. There have been three other similar incidents of hackers taking |
| 1:45.3 | over ring microphones in other customers' homes, including one in which the hacker made racist |
| 1:50.9 | taunts about an interracial couple's child, that according to news reports by NBC2 in Florida. |
| 1:56.8 | Rings' response? The company, which is owned by Amazon, published a blog post stating that its network has not been compromised. |
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