Hacker Harassed 8 year old Girl through Ring Camera

bojangle

bojangle

FN # 40
Staff member
We all know this kinda stuff can happen, but this is pretty disturbing.

When Alyssa LeMay heard the strange music and sounds coming from her bedroom, she walked in expecting to find one of her sisters. But the room was empty.

Then, as the 8-year-old wandered around her room alone, the mysterious song abruptly stopped.

“Hello there,” a man’s voice said.

It wasn’t Alyssa’s father, who was elsewhere inside the family’s Mississippi home. The voice belonged to a stranger. And not only could the faceless man speak to the young girl — he could see her.
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...From there, the exchange takes a dark turn.

The voice begins shouting the n-word at Alyssa, who is becoming increasingly confused.

“Go tell Mommy you’re a n-----,” the voice commands Alyssa, who is white.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...r-accessed-it-harassed-her-year-old-daughter/
 
HappyHighwayman

HappyHighwayman

Warning: Do Not Engage
Blame the police.

Second -- and far more importantly -- Ring aggressively courts police departments as "partners," turning consumer products into unofficial extensions of existing government camera networks. Ring hands out free cameras to cops and hands out even more freebies if cops convince homeowners to download the Neighbors app and share as much footage as possible. Ring also takes control of all PR efforts and official statements involving Ring doorbells that cops have given to citizens. And Ring coaches cops how to obtain footage without having to trouble the courts with a warrant.
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...oftware-because-whos-going-to-stop-them.shtml
 
budman

budman

General Menace
Staff member
So .. don't blame the perv??

The take your talking about is for the actual door bell application.

Not inside the house.
 
ScarySpikes

ScarySpikes

tastes like burning
budman said:
So .. don't blame the perv??

The take your talking about is for the actual door bell application.

Not inside the house.
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Sure, blame the perv, but also, absolutely blame Ring.

They haven't just sold their cameras as doorbells, they have sold them as in home security cameras. And they provided little more in terms of security than this web forum does.

Suggesting 2 factor authentication should not be a suggestion, it should be required. Plus they should be dropping a text or email if ANY unknown or untrusted device or a device from an abnormal location tries to or successfully gets in.

People trust these devices to be secure, and it's amazing how cavalier and uncaring many companies are when it comes to actually shoring up their security.
 
bojangle

bojangle

FN # 40
Staff member
295566 said:
Ya know, it's not a great look when mods throw around personal attacks. Let alone be the first to do so...
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He digs.

I dig back.

I guess you wish you were a mod since you run around the board trying to control what others post.
 
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DReg350

Well-known member
UDRider said:
From 2013....

TLDR security was shit and still is, and that before general consumer mistakes.
…

Don't put cameras accessible from net in to your house.
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And Amazon's response... She installed a Ring camera in her children’s room for ‘peace of mind.’ A hacker accessed it and harassed her 8-year-old daughter.

A spokesperson for Ring told The Post in a statement early Thursday that what happened to the LeMays “is in no way related to a breach or compromise of Ring’s security.” The “bad actors” behind the attacks “often re-use credentials stolen or leaked from one service on other services,” the spokesperson said.
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kevin 714

kevin 714

Well-known member
A city wide 24 hour surveillance networks of cameras was never going to end well. This just the beginning
 
UDRider

UDRider

FLCL?
DReg350 said:
And Amazon's response... She installed a Ring camera in her children’s room for ‘peace of mind.’ A hacker accessed it and harassed her 8-year-old daughter.
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Ok. Let's play through that.
Scenario 1. Hacker somehow isolated particular set of compromised credential to that specific household/camera. Possible, but unlikely scenario.
Scenario 2. Hacker found a camera exposed to the internet and ran a database through it to see if there were any matches. More likely scenario. So the question is why is their API allows for thousands of failed logins before either alerting a user, increasing the time for each log in, or just locking out outside interface?
 
Blankpage

Blankpage

alien
Eldritch said:
We had a thread around here recently where people were talking about options to have Net Cameras in your house without giving a 3rd party access.
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You, you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one
 
ScarySpikes

ScarySpikes

tastes like burning
Eldritch said:
We had a thread around here recently where people were talking about options to have Net Cameras in your house without giving a 3rd party access.
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IP network cameras are a good way to go, there are some guides online to setting them up.
 
Eldritch

Eldritch

is insensitive
Blankpage said:
You, you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one
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Nothing to make me foam at the mouth and rage like John Lennon.

:laughing
 
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