What the hack!
A nanny was shaken after a man recently hacked into the monitor of the child she was babysitting. While changing the infant’s diaper, the caretaker suddenly heard a man talking to her through the device.
According to reports, the stranger managed to hack into the Houston family’s password-protected Wi-Fi system and take control of the camera in the little girl’s nursery. This isn’t the first (and most likely won’t be the last) incident of its kind. Another family in Texas went through the same ordeal back 2013, when they were startled to hear a man yell through the speaker located inside their two-year-old daughter’s room. And last year, the connected baby monitor belonging to a family in Cincinnati, Ohio was attacked with screams of “Wake up baby!” projected through the intercom.
“I thought it was [Samantha’s] mom and dad playing a joke on me,” the nanny told Houston news station KHOU 11. “I was kind of really freaked out like…
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