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

If your baby monitor looks something like this, it’s probably a Meari. | Image: Meari

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 t …

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