Welcome to the final Tech Mem Ride Home of the Year.

For Monday, December 30th, 2019, I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, a major Internet of Things data leak China is about to turn on its GPS competitor

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V.C. gravy train over for us consumers. Here's what you missed today in the

world of tech.

Internet of Things device vendor, WISE, says that a server leak has exposed user data including email addresses, camera user IDs, and Wi-Fi SS IDs for around 2.4 million customers.

The leak took place from December 4th through December 26th this past month.

WISE sells smart devices like security cameras, smart plugs,

smart light bulbs, door locks, and even smart scales.

But this is odd.

The leak was confirmed in a forum post by wise co-founder

Dongsheng Song. The leaky server was discovered by Cybersecurity Firm 12

security and independently verified by reporters from the blog IPVM.

Founders Song complained that the researchers and the blog only informed wise that they had found

the leak 14 minutes before going public with the findings.

End quoting ZDNet.

Song confirmed that the leaky server exposed details such as the email addresses customers

used to create wise accounts, nicknames users assigned to their WISE security cameras,

Wi-Fi network SSID identifiers, and for 24,000 users, Alexa tokens to connect WISE devices to

Alexa devices.

The WISE exec denied that WISE tokens were exposed

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