Baby-monitor hacker spies on and swears at sleeping 2-year-old

[Jack]

A hacker took over a baby monitor in a home in the US city of Houston, Texas, to spy on a 2-year-old girl, to broadcast obscenities at the child, to swivel the camera so as to watch her shocked parents as they came in, and to then call the parents insulting names.

According to ABC News, Marc Gilbert and his wife, Lauren, heard the voice of a strange man with a British or European accent coming from the bedroom of their daughter, Allyson, on 10 August.

Marc Gilbert. Image courtesy of ABC news.As the parents approached the room, they heard the hacker call their daughter an “effing moron.”

The voice also told her to ”‘wake up, you little sl*t.”

When the Gilberts entered the room, the monitor's camera swiveled toward them. The hacker then called Marc Gilbert a "stupid moron" and Lauren Gilbert a "b*tch".

Marc Gilbert disconnected the monitor and tried to figure out what had happened, but he told ABC News that he couldn't, of course, see the hacker - he could only hear the voice and see that the intruder was controlling the camera.

Gilbert told reporters that he believes the hacker hacked his router. The hacker also, apparently, hacked the camera, through which he could see Allyson's name on the bedroom wall above her bed.

Fortunately, Allyson slept through the virtual invasion. She was born with a hearing impairment, and her cochlear implants were turned off at the time, Gilbert said, which was "something of a blessing":

“If she had heard it it would have been a big problem.”

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

 

[imsoadude]

Who does this. Like come on you break into a monitor and start swearing at a little girl... also i dont really think there is a need for a monitor that hooks to the internet, the old walkie talkie style monitor has always been enough.

 

[illumination]

I was just getting ready to comment the same... What kind of sick, twisted person would do this to a young child..

These are the kind of people, you wish you had 5 minutes alone with in a locked room..

 

[souhrid]

He is definitely a psycho

 

[Ink]

I agree that the old walkie talkie style were (and should be) enough.

Next it will be NSA monitoring-enabled Baby CCTV.

There's no need for a video camera in a child's room, and it definitely not needed to connected to the Internet/Router. We all know that systems connected to the net are vulnerable.