A couple who says their 8-year-old daughter was taunted by a Ring security camera hacker joins a class-action suit against the company for invasion of privacy and negligence.
At one point, the stranger told the girl he was Santa Claus and instructed the child to mess up her room and break her television. According to the lawsuit, the hacker also played a song from the horror film"Insidious."
Ring said in a statement in December that:"While we are still investigating this issue and are taking appropriate steps to protect our devices based on our investigation, we are able to confirm this incident is in no way related to a breach or compromise of Ring’s security."Craig and Amador, of Texas, said the person who hacked their camera told the couple that he was standing outside their front door, the lawsuit states.
The suit alleges that Ring, which is owned by Amazon, does not require customers to implement two-factor authentication for extra security and does not check when someone logs into an account from an unknown IP address. "Ring's failure to take basic security precautions breached its duty to safeguard the highly sensitive information to which their users entrusted them," the lawsuit says.News of the lawsuit comes on the heels of Amazon's Brian Huseman saying that at least four Ring employees were terminated for violating company policy about access to video data.
"Although each of the individuals involved in these incidents was authorized to view video data, the attempted access to that data exceeded what was necessary for their job functions," he said in a Jan. 6 letter this month to five Democratic senators.seeking information on the company's privacy and data-security practices.
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