A baby monitor was hacked after parents of 2-year old deaf child, Marc and Lauren, heard a man screaming expletive words to their baby in the middle of the night August 10 in Houston.
Marc Gilbert shares that he was washing the dishes after his birthday dinner when he heard what he referred to as 'strange noises' coming from Allyson's bedroom, who at the time was already asleep. He and his wife decided to check upstairs, only to hear the voice of a 'British/European' man shouting at their daughter.
They heard the voice calling Allyson an "effing moron" and was telling the little angel, "Wake up you little slut". The hacker did not stop there. He then started calling Marc a stupid moron and Lauren a b****. "At that point I ran over and disconnected it and tried to figure out what happened," Gilbert explains. "[I] Couldn't see the guy. All you could do was hear his voice and [that] he was controlling the camera."
What was even more terrifying is that the disturbing voice knew all their names. The Gilberts admitted that they have no idea as to how long this has been going on, to which Marc speculates, "It's quite possible that this had been going on more than one day".
Sergey Shekyan and Artem Harutyunyan of Qualys give their take on the opinion and says that in the video report they saw, the Gilberts were using a Foscam camera. At that point, they knew it was a problem after a presentation was released just last June, criticizing Foscam baby monitors being hacked in "To watch or to be watched: Turning your surveillance camera against you." One of the features of the camera was "remote internet monitoring from anywhere in the world," which is a lot scarier than assuring.
Parameter Security's Dave Chronister tells, "In this case, what it sounds like is that they set this camera up, and someone cracked into the wireless network," to which he advised using a WPA 2 network and a longer, more difficult password. Another piece of advice is to get the newer models of digital baby monitors.
"I don't think it ever will be connected again ... I think we are going to go without the baby monitor now,", Gilbert shares. The parents are still shaken by the incident and has decided to go public with their story to warn other parents of baby monitors being hacked.
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