Parent will do whatever they can to make sure their children are safe, and when high-tech baby monitors that could be controlled by an app on your phone, tablet, or computer, it made keeping an eye on your child that much easier.
Unfortunately, one family learned the hard way that their baby monitor opened them up to other dangers. Washington parents Sarah and Jay were shocked when they found out that a stranger was able to hack into their baby monitor in their son’s room, and was spying on the toddler and talking to him from the device’s speaker.
Their son had complained that he was afraid to go to bed because of the man that was talking to him on the phone, but Sarah and Jay couldn’t understand what he meant, and figured he was just having a nightmare.
But one night when Sarah walked past her son’s bedroom, she heard a voice. When she walked in the room, she heard a man’s voice coming from the monitor saying “wake up little boy, daddy’s looking for you.” The hacker also managed to remotely access the night-vision camera and was controlling it to follow their every movement.
As shocked as the family was to have their privacy and their son’s privacy violated, they found out that because these baby monitors were connected to the internet and an app on a smartphone, these devices are actually incredibly easy to hack into, and these crimes are now happening more and more frequently.
Watch the entire video below to see how you can protect yourself and your family against something like this happening to you.
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