A do it yourself (DIY) camera system sold through Amazon exposed private cameras to 13,000 strangers.
Around 13,000 Wyze security camera customers were able to see sensitive content from strangers’ devices Friday. As cameras were coming back online after a service outage, the customers saw thumbnails from other people’s feeds in their apps, and some clicked through to see videos.
The Seattle-based company alerted customers about the “security incident” in an email Monday. It says the original hours-long outage was caused by Amazon Web Services. When the cameras came back online, the device IDs and user ID mapping were mixed up, leading to some people having access to data from the wrong accounts.