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December 19, 2019 11:56 pm PST

Amazon used "security" to sell Ring doorbells, then blamed customers when hackers broke into them

[Amazon's surveillance doorbell company Ring sells "security" -- the sense that surveilling your porch or your driveway or your home can make you safe. But when the company experienced a grotesque and completely predictable breach that saw hackers breaking into Ring cameras and spying on and tormenting their owners, Amazon blamed their customers for recycling passwords. In this outstanding Deeplinks post, my EFF colleagues, Cooper Quintin and Bill Budington explain just how odious this victim-blaming really is. -Cory]

Just a week after hackers broke into a Ring camera in a childs bedroom taunting the child and sparking serious concerns about the companys security practices, Buzzfeed News is reporting that over 3,600 Ring owners email addresses, passwords, camera locations, and camera names were dumped online. This Includes cameras recording private spaces inside homes.

This stunning new leak could potentially provide criminals and stalkers with access to view live video feeds from inside and around thousands of Ring customers homes, see archived videos, and get the precise location of all Ring devices attached to the compromised account by studying the orientation of the footage and location information attached to each camera.

Ring has claimed that this attack was the result of credential stuffing, a technique where attackers gather usernames and passwords compromised in another data breach and try them on other websites. Ring claims that the incident is in no way related to a breach or compromise of Rings security. Ring is attempting to place the blame squarely at the feet of their customers for reusing passwords, using weak passwords, and not turning on two-factor authentication. Read the rest


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