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Popular video doorbells can be easily hijacked, researchers find


Walmart and Temu pulled the affected doorbell cameras from their stores. Amazon and others have taken no action.

These relatively cheap doorbell cameras were available on online marketplaces like Walmart and Temu, which removed them from sale after Consumer Reports reached out to the companies to flag the problems. One mitigating factor is that, once this process is over, the owner of the camera gets an email alerting them that their “Aiwit device has changed ownership,” per the tests Consumer Reports conducted. Walmart’s spokesperson John Forrest told TechCrunch in an email that the retail giant removed the EKEN and Tuck doorbells from sale.

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