I just watched a news video about baby monitor hackers! I have never heard of this and I started wondering if anyone else has?! It seems so crazy, & I can’t understand who would want to do this but there have been several cases of monitors being hacked. I own an old school monitor where you listen to the baby but don’t see her. For those of you like me, who might not be aware, more modern monitors use the internet to work. There’s a video camera in the baby’s room that transmits video and sound to the parent monitor or phone via the internet. Hackers are able to take control of the video camera, and move it around the room. They can even talk through the camera!
The parents interviewed in the video were terrified when they heard a man’s voice shouting “Wake Up” coming from their baby’s room. They immediately thought someone was in the house. When they ran into their baby’s room, the man’s voice was coming through the baby monitor. The hacker then moved the camera up to look at the parents and started shouting at them. I can only imagine how frightening that must have been for the parents & baby!
The video gave two tips to secure your monitor & prevent it from being hacked. First, be sure to change your user name and password from the default. Choose a complicated password that contains some symbols & numbers. And, change the password every so often. Second, keep your device updated and check the manufacturers website for any security updates. You can view the video here.
If you know anyone that has a baby monitor that uses the internet, be sure to share & advise them to make the two recommended security changes. I can’t imagine how terrifying it would be to have someone watching my child, and shouting things at them. Let me know your thoughts!
I can’t imagine why they would even want to hack into a baby’s monitor. It’s so cruel to frighten parents in such a way that they feel their baby is in danger and I bet it’s near impossible to catch the hackers who do this horrible stuff too.
I can’t understand why someone would do it either…except to seriously scare babies and parents. It really is cruel! Thank you for your comment Dawn!
Oh my goodness, that is so scary! Thank you for sharing this information, I need to set a password for my monitor!!
You’re welcome Susan. I’m glad you found it helpful. Who’d have thought there are people who would hack into baby monitors! Thank you for leaving a comment.
This is vile. Thank you so much for posting this information so we all can protect our children and the sanctity of our homes. What next!? Who would even think of such a hideous thing? Thanks again. In forwarding your website to everyone I know with children!
You’re very welcome. It really is shocking that there are people who would hack baby monitors. Thank you for sharing my website, I really appreciate it! And thank you for leaving a comment.
God this is terrifying, I’m glad we’re out of the monitor phase now! We used to have old school ones too, and one day I heard a child babbling in the monitor when my first child was only a couple of months old. This freaked me RIGHT out, and eventually I realised that we were on the same frequency as the lady opposite us and I was hearing her and her daughter. Freaky or what?! We quickly changed monitors then! x #twinklytuesdays
It really is terrifying! It’s really awful what some people get up to. Yikes, I wouldn’t’ like to hear someone else’s baby through the monitor either. Thanks so much for commenting #TwinklyTuesday
That actually made me feel a bit sick. People are vile – hacking into baby monitors? 🙁 I’m glad I don’t have a video monitor now thanks for sharing x
You’re welcome. It’s such an awful story, I wanted to spread the word for parents with video monitors! Thank you for your comment.
This would be awful, completely scary. We have very old monitors, they are video ones but very old hand me downs so we don’t have to worry about this but I have definitely heard of these stories. Thanks for sharing these bits of advice and thanks so much for linking up with #twinklytuesday
It makes you grateful to have old school monitors! Thank you hun! I’ll be back next Tuesday 🙂
I read an article about this the other day..it’s awful that people are able to this.makes me glad I don’t have a video one..mine just plugs into the wall..no intent needed thank god!xx
It really is awful. Made me happy to have an old school monitor too! Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting 🙂
OH MY GOD. I can’t believe this is real! So pleased you shared this, this is so bad that some sickos would actually bother to go to the trouble of doing this – totally unthinkabe! So thanks for relaying #snotallaboutyou
It really is awful! I was disgusted when I saw the video. Thank you for your comment!
This is a really interesting post, thanks for sharing. Scary world out there. Thanks for linking up to #snotallaboutyou
Oh my god! I don’t have a video monitor thankfully. We used to be able to pick someone else’s house up on ours though. I could never work out who it was but it kept happening. Thank you for linking with #snotallaboutyou
Thank you for hosting, it’s a lovely linky 🙂 #snotallabout you x