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

Published: (May 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT)
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Source: The Verge

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 …

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