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A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers

The Verge·Sean Hollister·21 days ago
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A baby’s eyes peer directly into the camera lens. A kid with a striped shirt looks up, then away. A boy in a policeman’s costume, a gold star on his chest. A messy bedroom that reminds me of my own daughters, with an unmade bunk bed, a little girl’s hat and headband, and Hello Kitty plastered on the wall. One thought repeats in my mind: I shouldn’t be seeing this . No stranger should. But bad actors could’ve easily spied on all these locations — and a million more — because many of Meari Technology’s Wi-Fi baby monitors and security cameras were absurdly insecure. If you had access to one of those cameras, you theoretically had access to them all. Meari is a Chinese white-label brand whose cameras ship under hundreds of different names. Many are generic-sounding Amazon sellers like Arenti, Anran, Boifun, and ieGeek. But financial records show one of the company’s biggest customers is Wyze ; its biggest customer is Zhiyun; and many hackable cameras were from Intelbras.…

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