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AFP reports that Nest, a smart camera manufacturer founded by former Apple engineers and owned by Alphabet, is urging customers to use two factor authentication for their home systems. The plea comes after local media near San Francisco reported on a couple's trouble with a Nest camera mounted on top of their TV. Apparently, a hacker breached the device with a credential stuffing attack and broadcast a "realistic-sounding warning of missiles heading to the United States from North Korea." Meanwhile, that same day, Motherboard posted an independent report of white hat hacker SydeFX breaching the Nest cameras of young women to promote PewDiePie.
Motherboard uploaded a censored version of one such breach, which you can see here
In a statement following the incidents, Google said "Nest was not breached," and that "these recent reports are based on customers using compromised passwords - exposed through breaches on other websites." Technically, they're correct, as these hackers seemingly found re-used Nest passwords through unrelated breaches. The first report claims that Nest also sifts though known breaches to see if any of their users are compromised, but apparently, that wasn't enough to prevent these incidents. Thanks to Schtask for the tip.
Motherboard uploaded a censored version of one such breach, which you can see here
In a statement following the incidents, Google said "Nest was not breached," and that "these recent reports are based on customers using compromised passwords - exposed through breaches on other websites." Technically, they're correct, as these hackers seemingly found re-used Nest passwords through unrelated breaches. The first report claims that Nest also sifts though known breaches to see if any of their users are compromised, but apparently, that wasn't enough to prevent these incidents. Thanks to Schtask for the tip.