NBC News reports a couple’s wireless smart home camera was hacked by an individual who threatened to kidnap their baby. After disengaging the home’s Wi-Fi network, Ellen Rigney called the experience “unnerving and unsettling,” adding, “You have something that’s supposed to make you feel better, and instead it makes you feel the opposite.” In a statement, Nest advised customers to enable two-factor authentication on cameras to help verify user identity and said it has “seen instances where Nest customers have reused passwords that were previously exposed through breaches on other websites and made public.”
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