Smart camera company Wyze said that a glitch with its network last week allowed some users to see footage from security cameras that belonged to other users.
Wyze said in a post that it experienced an outage on Friday with its AWS cloud service that took down Wyze cameras for several hours. As the company worked to restore camera feeds, a security issue emerged in which certain users were able to see thumbnails and video from cameras that weren’t theirs.
“Some users reported seeing the wrong thumbnails and Event Videos in their Events tab,” Wyze said. “We immediately removed access to the Events tab and started an investigation.”
“We can now confirm that as cameras were coming back online, about 13,000 Wyze users received thumbnails from cameras that were not their own and 1,504 users tapped on them. Most taps enlarged the thumbnail, but in some cases an Event Video was able to be viewed,” the company said.
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