Wyze confirmed that after an outage on Friday, a data issue sent thumbnail images from some of its users’ cameras to strangers. It has identified 14 incidents so far.
Five months ago, we wrote about how your Wyze webcam might have let strangers peek into your house. Today, it happened again. Wyze cofounder David Crosby confirms that at least a dozen users were able to briefly see into a stranger’s property because they were shown an image from someone else’s camera. “We have now identified a security issue where some users were able to see thumbnails of cameras that were not their own in the Events tab,” he told The Verge.
After the initial outage eased around mid-day Friday, the thumbnail issues started, as the company reported at 1:07PM ET, “We are still investigating an issue with the Events Tab and will have another update shortly with further info,” without explaining the issue. At 2:27PM ET, the company turned off the Events tab entirely: “We are temporarily disabling the Event tab in the Wyze app to investigate a possible security issue and will have it back up soon,” it wrote in a service advisory.
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