Hackers keep targeting Ring accounts.
Hackers have been publishing thousands of Ring camera account credentials on the dark web and forums frequented by cybercriminals, according to reports.
In some cases, hackers do it just for the laughs, “in the hopes that someone else would hack Ring users, hijack their accounts, play pranks, or record users in their homes,” according to a report at ZDNet.
These reports come after a Mississippi mom told Fox News that someone hacked her Ring surveillance cameras in her daughter’s bedroom and talked to her.
In an appearance on “Fox & Friends: Weekend” with host Rachel-Campos-Duffy, Ashley LeMay, who works overnight shifts as a nurse, urged the security company to have “more of a response because this is…happening to people all over.”
Ring, which is owned by Amazon, said in a blog post on December 12 (and updated on December 18) that it was “made aware of an incident where malicious actors obtained some Ring users’ account credentials,” including usernames and passwords.
The criminals modus operandi is to steal credentials from a non-Ring service and then reuse those credentials to log into Ring accounts, according to the blog post.