Posted 2/20/2024, 3:23:00 PM
Wyze Cameras Hit By Cloud Outage Exposing Some User Footage
- Wyze smart camera company experienced a security glitch resulting in about 13,000 users seeing other customers' camera footage
- The glitch occurred due to an outage and issues with Wyze's cloud computing partner AWS
- About 1,500 users enlarged the wrong thumbnail images, allowing them to view footage from other customers' cameras
- Wyze blames a third-party caching client library that received unprecedented load conditions
- This is not Wyze's first security incident; in 2019 a data leak exposed customer email addresses and other sensitive information