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Last week, co-founder David Crosby said that “so far” the company had identified 14 people who were able to briefly see into a stranger’s property because they were shown an image from someone else’s Wyze camera.
The revelation came from an email sent to customers entitled “An Important Security Message from Wyze,” in which the company copped to the breach and apologized, while also attempting to lay some of the blame on its web hosting provider AWS.
It also claims that all impacted users have been notified of the security breach, and that over 99 percent of all of its customers weren’t affected.
One Reddit user, who described herself as a “23 year old girl” was getting ready for work during the breach, described herself as “disgusted and upset” and said she would be deleting her account.
Wyze is scrambling to fix things by adding an additional layer of verification before users can view images or footage from the Events tab.
“We have also modified our system to bypass caching for checks on user-device relationships until we identify new client libraries that are thoroughly stress tested for extreme events like we experienced on Friday,” the company’s email reads.
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AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I never understood having security cameras inside of the house. I feel like that doesn’t do anything to deter a break in because the would be buglers don’t know about it until they’re inside. And security footage doesn’t do a lot to catch criminals, it can help ID someone once caught but if they wear a mask/ don’t look at the camera/are moving fast it’s kind of useless. And if it’s connected to the Internet there is always a chance it gets hacked.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wyze seems to heavily target outdoor use cases. Their base camera is weather resistant, they sell a lot of doorbells and flood lights.