A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers
Source: The Verge
If your baby monitor looks something like this, it’s probably a Meari.
[Image: Meari baby monitor]
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 …