Wyze Says Camera Breach Let 13,000 Customers Briefly See Into Other People's Homes

An anonymous reader shares a report: Wyze's problems with letting its security camera customers briefly see into other customer homes is a lot worse than we thought. Last week, co-founder David Crosby said that 'so far' the company had identified 14 people who were able to briefly see into a stranger's property because they were shown an image from someone else's Wyze camera. Now we're being told that number of affected customers has ballooned to 13,000.

The revelation came from an email sent to customers entitled 'An Important Security Message from Wyze,' in which the company copped to the breach and apologized, while also attempting to lay some of the blame on its web hosting provider AWS. The breach, however, occurred as Wyze was attempting to bring its cameras back online. Customers were reporting seeing mysterious images and video footage in their own Events tab. Wyze disabled access to the tab and launched its own investigation.

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