Inside the Lens: 6 Terrifying Home Surveillance Hacks

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00:00Many households nowadays use home security cameras for surveillance and protection.

00:05Popular companies like Ring and Nest will broadcast these live feeds on the internet

00:08for users with the account's email and password to access.

00:12However, this means that if anyone else has the email and password, they can also access

00:17this live feed from anywhere.

00:19There have been many cases of hackers getting users' emails and passwords through various

00:23methods and spying on unsuspecting families, even using the camera's microphone feature

00:28to talk to them.

00:31Here are six of the most disturbing cases.

00:36Ashley LeMay is a mother of three and had installed a Ring security camera in her daughter's bedroom

00:41for peace of mind that she put in.

00:44In December of 2019, one of the daughters, Alyssa, heard a voice coming from the room and walked

00:49in expecting to find one of her sisters.

00:52However, she quickly realized no one was there.

00:56The voice began repeatedly directing non-monetizable words at Alyssa.

01:00Alyssa.

01:01What?

01:02I hear you.

01:03I can't hear you.

01:04I can't hear you.

01:05Go.

01:06Say it with me.

01:07Alyssa walks back out of her room and yells out that she can't hear you.

01:28Still thinking it's one of her family members.

01:29But she would get no response and return back to her room, confused.

01:35Come on, girl.

01:36Say it with me.

01:37Who is that?

01:38I'm your best friend.

01:39You can do whatever you want right now.

01:40You can mess up your room.

01:42You can break your TV.

01:44You can do whatever you want.

01:45Who is that?

01:46Who is that?

01:47I'm your best friend.

01:48You can do whatever you want right now.

01:51You can mess up your room.

01:52You can break your TV.

01:53You can do whatever you want.

01:54Who is that?

01:55I'm your best friend.

01:56I'm Santa Claus.

01:57Mommy!

01:58I'm Santa Claus.

01:59Don't you want to be my best friend?

02:00The voice attempts to persuade Alyssa into misbehaving.

02:04Now scared and still unsure of where the voice is coming from, she calls out for her parents.

02:11Her parents later unplugged the camera, and have since gotten rid of the system completely.

02:16The hacking was ultimately attributed to the family reusing the same email and password from a site that was hit with a data breach.

02:21I'm your best friend.

02:22I'm Santa Claus.

02:23Don't you want to be my best friend?

02:24The voice attempts to persuade Alyssa into misbehaving.

02:25Now scared and still unsure of where the voice is coming from, she calls out for her parents.

02:28Her parents later unplugged the camera, and have since gotten rid of the system completely.

02:33The hacking was ultimately attributed to the family reusing the same email and password from a site that was hit with a data breach.

02:40This is the home security camera footage from the Browns family, a family in Florida.

02:49On December 8, 2019, the speakers of their cameras started blasting the sound of an alarm.

02:56A voice then followed, berating them with hateful comments.

03:00Main man Shaq, it's your boy Chance on Knolls, welcome to the Knollscast.

03:14Wait, wait, so did your child come out black or like, kinda like light-skinned? I don't know.

03:22What?

03:23Nothing.

03:24The voice mentions the couple's son, which at no point during that night walked in front of the camera.

03:33This would suggest that the hacker was watching the family's live feed for longer than just that night.

03:39The Browns believe it was at least multiple days, days in which they would have no way of knowing they were being watched.

03:45However, they were unable to find out exactly how long they were being watched before the hacker came over the speaker.

03:53After nearly three minutes of enduring hateful speech from the voice, they finally ripped out the camera's batteries.

03:59Can you bring, like, a web browser up on your phone and then type in the website that I tell you?

04:05No.

04:06Why?

04:07I'll leave you and your family alone.

04:10Or I could do this.

04:13I like your dog.

04:24Hey, go to no-

04:26After this night the Browns family stopped using any kind of home security camera.

04:33In November of 2020, police in Decatur, Georgia received an anonymous phone call reporting a shooting inside of a woman's home.

04:43They immediately responded and sent out ten officers to the scene.

04:47The homeowners were completely caught off guard and suggested to the police that they were given the wrong address.

04:53Police called back to dispatch to verify the address, and they confirmed they were at the right place.

04:59The homeowners offered to let the officers search their house to avoid any suspicion of them being involved.

05:05When they found nothing inside, they started to question who the anonymous caller was.

05:10And as they were heading back outside, they would find out.

05:14Yo, I'm right in the camera. Look in the camera. Yes.

05:18The ring doorbell camera had been hacked and the family had been swatted.

05:22The fact that somebody would be childish enough to do something that could have taken somebody else's life.

05:28Change all your . Stop using the same passwords for everything.

05:33That's sick.

05:35We are sick. Yeah, we are disgusting.

05:38This is a 15-1 today. We do this all over the United States.

05:43The homeowners doorbell camera had been hacked and they'd been swatted.

05:47Being swatted is essentially when someone calls emergency services, deceiving them into believing there's an emergency at your address.

05:54The hacker was able to get the homeowners address using their IP address.

05:58They then reported a shooting as, I guess, their sick way of teaching the homeowners to use different passwords.

06:04Swatting is a real criminal offense and in some rare cases can be fatal.

06:11The hacker behind this home security camera hacking and resident swatting was never able to be identified.

06:17Tanya Amador was asleep in her house upstairs when she woke up to the sound of her ring camera's alarm going off.

06:27She worried an intruder had entered the home and so she began searching it.

06:32As she was doing so, she would hear a voice coming out of the room with the ring camera.

06:37The alarm started up again and so she finally went out to the room and took out the batteries, now thinking it was just malfunctioning.

06:44She decided to review the footage to confirm this and this is what she saw.

06:49Someone had hacked into the camera's live feed.

07:08The voice jokes around claiming to be ring support.

07:12It then demands 50 bitcoin as a ransom.

07:16Finally, the hacker would access Tanya's doorbell camera, again going on the speaker and this time saying,

07:21I'm outside your front door.

07:24It's unclear how long Tanya was being watched through her cameras.

07:28She called police, but there wasn't much they could do.

07:35This is the home security camera footage of the Chrysalik family.

07:39The camera is shown sitting on the kitchen counter as the youngest daughter sits on the couch in the background watching TV.

07:45Suddenly, a voice begins talking over the speaker.

07:50Whatcha watching?

07:52Hey, what show is that?

07:57I've seen that show before.

08:00What season ya?

08:02Hello?

08:04The girl either doesn't hear the voice or chooses not to respond to it.

08:13That's when the dad, Adam, walks in the room, unaware he's being watched.

08:18The voice continues and his head jolts towards the TV.

08:22When he realizes it wasn't coming from the TV, he pulls out his phone.

08:26That's when he remembers the ring camera.

08:29Hello?

08:30What are you eating?

08:31You're hungry?

08:32What?

08:33Hello?

08:34I'm powering off.

08:36Hello?

08:37Hello?

08:38Hello?

08:39Hello?

08:40Hello?

08:41Hello?

08:42Hello?

08:43Hello?

08:44Hello?

08:45What are you eating?

08:46What are you eating?

08:47You're hungry?

08:48What?

08:49Hello?

08:50Powering off.

08:51That was, kind of.

08:52That was me.

08:53Unfortunately.

08:54Oh, whos it is worth it.

09:02No.

09:03Hello?

09:04Kits, cough, cough, cough.

09:06How does it mean?

09:07No.

09:08Rep tip, cough, cough, cough, cough.

09:09I don't think it feels naughty.

09:10What am I asking?

09:11Ooh, nothing.

09:12What am I asking?

09:13Sorry, Inspector, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough.

09:16What are you asking?

09:17What are you including?

09:20attempts to imitate some sort of robotic Ring text-to-speech voice. However, Adam knows his

09:26account's been hacked. He disabled the camera and contacted Ring about the incident. The company

09:33responded saying an unidentified phone had logged into the Ring account. They tried to trace it

09:38back to a source, but were unable to. They basically told him there was nothing they could

09:44do but have him change his password and set up two-factor authentication for his account.

09:50A couple in Georgia had installed a home security camera in their bedroom so they could keep

09:57an eye on their dog while they were away at work. One night, right after the woman had

10:01put the dog in his crate for the night, she heard a cough over the camera's speaker. Laying

10:06in bed, she looks over at it and sees the blue light turn on which indicates someone was watching

10:11the live feed. She texts her boyfriend who was at work and asks him why he had the feed

10:16open. Seconds later, she gets a text back asking what she was talking about. Just then, a voice

10:24comes over the speaker.

10:26Shortly after, she took the batteries out of the camera. The couple says they later found

10:45out that someone had hacked into the Ring account at least four times. They filed a police report,

10:51record, but nothing ever came of it.

10:58like, she's a user.

11:00Like, can she tell us all of us.

11:02I have a plan for this.

11:04I don't know.

11:05I know.

11:07I can't see you a couple of people.

11:09Not yet.

11:15What, do you think?

11:17I suppose there's a case for you.

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