Wyze Cameras Let 13,000 Customers Look into Other People's Homes
Wyze cameras - whose devices are sold on Amazon and Walmart - allowed 13,000 of its customers to look into other people's homes.
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Wyze cameras - whose devices are sold on Amazon and Walmart - allowed 13,000 of its customers to look into other people's homes.
Wyze Labs said that a security lapse occurred last week that exposed about 13,000 users' camera footage to other users after a glitch occurred while its system recovered from an outage.
Smart camera company Wyze said that a glitch with its network last week allowed some users to see footage from security cameras that belonged to other users.
Some Wyze camera owners have reported that they were suddenly given access to cameras that weren't theirs and even got notifications for events inside other people's homes.
We have sent emails out to all affected and unaffected Wyze users from the security issue that occurred on 2/16/24. The first email went to all unaffected users. The second email went to users whose event thumbnails we…