![]() ![]() "Over the past few years, the hacking of baby monitors has become an increasingly disturbing problem," Julie Menin, head of the investigation at New York's Department of Consumer Affairs, tells Newsweek. ![]() ![]() consumer watchdog launched an investigation this week into four of the baby monitor companies that it believes are compromising the safety of children. This month, an online search engine called Shodan, originally set up in 2009 to provide feeds from web-connected CCTV cameras and webcams, made it inadvertently possible for people to view sleeping children through vulnerable smart baby monitors. Gilbert's baby monitor was hacked in August 2013 and since then reports of unwanted intrusions through Internet-connected devices have proliferated. Instead, the voice was coming from the camera-equipped baby monitor overlooking the infant's crib. As he and his wife approached the room, he heard the stranger telling his two-year-old to "wake up you little slut." But when he entered, there was noone there. Marc Gilbert was washing the dishes when he first heard a stranger's voice in his daughter's bedroom. ![]()
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