[ad_1]
Breaking News E-mails
Receive last minute alerts and special reports. News and stories that matter, broadcast in the morning on weekdays.
From Elisha Fieldstadt
A Texan mother declares that a person hacked into the wireless camera system used to monitor his son and threatened him with an accident. kidnapping of the baby. [19659007] Ellen Rigney was in bed with her husband Sunday night in their home in Houston when she heard a noise from the Nest camera connected to her 4-month-old son's room, Topper. First, she thought it was a carbon monoxide alarm, then "we heard sexual explanations in her room," she told KPRC, a NBC affiliate.
The Nest camera in their bedroom, which was turned off, suddenly turned on and a man 's voice told them to turn off the light.
"Then he said," I'm going to kidnap your baby. I'm in your baby's room, "Rigney said.
But when they got to Topper's room, he was exactly where they had left him alone. [19659007] "He's not here, no one hackers that," Rigney told her husband, they immediately stopped their Wi-Fi and
Rigney also warned Nest, but she clarified that those present "were of no help" and "did not apologize."
She threw away Nest's cameras and now sits on a camera that does not use Wi-Fi to monitor her son.
"It's annoying and disturbing," Rigney said. have something that is supposed to make you feel better and makes you feel the opposite. "
In a statement to NBC News, Nest stated that the company There have been cases where Nest customers have reused previously exposed passwords. "
" None of these violations involved Nest, "the statement said.
Nest encourages customers to set up" two-factor authentication "on their cameras. Two-factor authentication is a security feature that sends a unique code to a user, often to his smartphone, to verify his identity.
