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Wyze cameras let some owners see into a stranger’s home — again

A Friday morning outage was just the beginning.

But even after cameras came back online, it apparently discovered a new security issue with the Events tab — the same place where most of these users say they saw a stranger’s images appear. We contacted Wyze two hours ago at multiple email addresses but haven’t heard back. Two years ago, I told you how Wyze swept a security vulnerability under the rug for three years, never notifying its customers that their unpatchable v1 cameras could have theoretically let hackers access video feeds over the internet, or that patches were required for later cameras to prevent the same thing.

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