Hacker breaks into Baby Monitor and tries to wake baby up..

[HipChick]

Heather Schreck was asleep around midnight in her Hebron home when a voice startled her.

"All of a sudden, I heard what sounded like a man's voice but I was asleep so I wasn't sure," Heather said.

Disoriented and confused, Heather picked up her cell phone to check the camera in her 10-month-old daughter Emma's room. The camera was moving, but she wasn't moving it.

"About the time I saw it moving, I also heard a voice again start screaming at my daughter. He was screaming, ‘Wake up baby. Wake up baby.' Then just screaming at her trying to wake her up."

That's when Heather's husband, Adam, ran into Emma's room. Adam said the camera then turned from his petrified daughter to point directly at him.

"Then it screamed at me," Adam said. "Some bad things, some obscenities. So I unplugged the camera."

But the Schrecks were only beginning to plug into the truth of what had just happened.

"Someone had hacked in from outside," Heather said.

So how many other times had someone hacked into their camera and watched their baby through their Foscam IP Camera.

"You do kind of feel violated in a way," Adam said.

According to tech experts, wireless IP cameras like the one the Shrieks have are an easy way for hackers to open a cyber door directly into your home.

"Any kind of Internet-connected device essentially could be subjected to this," said Dave Hatter, a solutions expert for Infinity Partners.

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http://clevelandheights.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/rockaspy-baby-hacked-monitor-terrifies-parents

[penultimate]

1. What a dick move...

So this sounds as if it was a flaw that was exploited, and not just a misconfigured or poorly secured device, aye?

[HipChick]

9. It's not the first time...and open knowledge on Hacker communities

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/14/baby-monitor-hacker-spies-on-and-swears-at-sleeping-2-year-old/

[libodem]

2. {{{Shudder}}}

That is beyond the usual creepy. Ewww.

[myrna minx]

3. That's disturbing.

[frazzled]

4. Sometimes I think life was easier before technology

Don't get me wrong: I recognize the enormous benefits that computers and their related digital technologies have brought to my life and work. But there is an equal amount of downside ... from remote intrusion into your life and business, to your own addictions to the digital, to the loss of other forms of contact, in real life.

Sometimes I wonder if it will all even out some day.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Reminded of this song:

[TroglodyteScholar]

7. Yes!

Thank you

[TroglodyteScholar]

6. "Wake up baby!"

Does it make me a terrible person to have laughed really hard at that?

[HipChick]

8. No...I laughed too..