If you need another good reason to understand that your networks are secure, we present you one: hacked baby monitors.
In a true horror story in Texas, two parents reported that they woke up last weekend because they heard the voice of a stranger coming from the area where their 2-year-old daughter was sleeping.
“I felt like someone had broken into our house”, reported Marc Gilbert on KTRK of ABC.
Gilbert quickly went to the room and heard the voice say, “Wake up Allyson, little [brats].” or in English “Wake up Allyson, you little ……. .”
The voice was coming from the camera that was watching their baby, then the camera turned and started watching Marc while it was going to disconnect it.
Marc told Allyson that he didn't believe what he was hearing and obviously the incident shook the whole family.
“I don't think we will reconnect the camera again ,” Gilbert said to ABC News.
It is known that hackers target computer cameras, this is not something new. It is chilling (not to mention illegal), but discovering that someone with malicious intent is watching your baby is a fact that should wake us all up. From security experts to parents who use technology to feel safe with their child. We probably need to rethink quite a few things.
