Small surveillance cameras are a way for many families to protect their homes from theft or to monitor children when their parents are absent.
But this means of protection can become a threat to the privacy of families and individuals, by making the most accurate details of their lives vulnerable to penetration.
That's what happened to an American family after its NES surveillance camera was hacked by pirates. The family was surprised by a loud voice from the camera warning them that "an attack by North Korea was about to happen," calling on family members to evacuate immediately. .
Laura Lions said her family lived five minutes of horror. "It seemed like a very real warning. We lived five minutes of terror, then about 30 minutes, trying to understand what was happening," The Mercury News reported.
It turned out after the family contacted Nest that the home surveillance camera had been hacked, and the hackers managed to get the family video and broadcast the false warning.
This is not the first incident to penetrate the home surveillance cameras of this model, with several incidents recorded during the past few months of the breakthroughs occurred through these cameras.
The company, owned by Google in a statement to AFP that the incidents of penetrating cameras that occurred was the result of the use of stolen passwords from other places on the Internet.
The company called on owners of these cameras to use strong passwords and binary authentication applications that provide greater protection from penetration.
"We take security inside houses very seriously, and we offer features to deny vulnerable passwords."