Employee error to blame for massive data leak, Wyze says

'Loads of folks found brand-new Wyze surveillance cameras under their
trees or in their stockings this Christmas. And on Boxing Day, the
company itself unwrapped a whole new world of trouble for everyone who
uses its products, confirming a data leak that may have exposed
personal data for millions of users over the course of a few weeks.

Wyze first found out about the problem on the morning of December 26,
company cofounder Dongsheng Song said in a corporate blog post. The
company's investigation confirmed that user data was "not properly
secured" and was exposed from December 4 onward.

The database in question was basically a copy of the production
database that Wyze created to work with, Song explained. Data points
left exposed include user email addresses, camera nicknames, Wi-Fi
network information, Wyze device information, some tokens associated
with Alexa integrations, and "body metrics for a small number of
product beta testers."'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/surveillance-camera-company-wyze-confirms-leak-of-user-data/

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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