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Amazon’s Ring has been blaming reused passwords, but now thousands of logins have leaked - The Verge
More security problems for Ring
Amazon’s Ring is having a very bad week. BuzzFeed News first reported today that login credentials for thousands of Ring camera owners have been published online, including 3,672 sets of emails, passwords, time zones, and the names given to specific Ring cameras (“front door” or “kitchen,” for example). Later today, TechCrunch reported on a set of 1,562 credentials, also consisting of unique email addresses, passwords, time zones, and a camera’s named location. It’s unclear if there’s overlap in the two datasets, but TechCrunch said that its data “appears to be a similar-looking data set to that which [BuzzFeed News] obtained.”
In the hands of a bad actor, this information could potentially be used to log into your Ring account, watch live footage from your Ring cameras, and access additional personal data like your address, phone number, and some payment information. And you’d never know, unless you block it from happening by setting up two-factor authentication.
More security problems for Ring
Amazon’s Ring is having a very bad week. BuzzFeed News first reported today that login credentials for thousands of Ring camera owners have been published online, including 3,672 sets of emails, passwords, time zones, and the names given to specific Ring cameras (“front door” or “kitchen,” for example). Later today, TechCrunch reported on a set of 1,562 credentials, also consisting of unique email addresses, passwords, time zones, and a camera’s named location. It’s unclear if there’s overlap in the two datasets, but TechCrunch said that its data “appears to be a similar-looking data set to that which [BuzzFeed News] obtained.”
In the hands of a bad actor, this information could potentially be used to log into your Ring account, watch live footage from your Ring cameras, and access additional personal data like your address, phone number, and some payment information. And you’d never know, unless you block it from happening by setting up two-factor authentication.