Your Wyze webcam may need let different homeowners peek into your home

Some Wyze safety digicam homeowners reported Friday that they have been unexpectedly capable of see webcam feeds that weren’t theirs, that means that they have been unintentionally capable of see within different individuals’s homes. A Wyze buyer help agent confirmed to The Verge that this was certainly occurring.

“Went to test on my cameras and they’re all gone get replaced with a brand new one… and this isn’t mine!” wrote one consumer. “Apologies if that is your home / canine… I don’t need it displaying up as a lot as you don’t need it!”

“I’m able to click on the occasions tab and see ALL the occasions on this random individual’s digicam INSIDE their home,” wrote one other.

“I don’t know why, however I can see another person’s digicam,” wrote one other.

It seems that individuals have been seeing the opposite feeds by way of Wyze’s internet viewer at view.wyze.com. A Wyze worker instructed a consumer on Reddit that the web page is “at present underneath upkeep” and that “we’re engaged on this and can replace when it’s out there once more.” Wyze’s standing web page posted an analogous message on Friday at 5:44PM ET.

A Wyze buyer help agent confirmed to me that the corporate has a difficulty with its on-line digicam portal — one the place individuals have been really capable of see different clients’ digicam feeds. “Whereas we work to get this resolved, Wyze Internet View performance could also be restricted or unavailable,” they instructed me. The agent was not capable of present an estimate for when the difficulty could be mounted.

“We and our group are already working to enhance our safety and to research the basis explanation for this,” the agent stated. After I requested if they might share what these enhancements may be, the agent responded: “I can’t disclose any additional info.”

Wyze’s PR group didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark. Whereas it appears that evidently Wyze is taking steps to repair the difficulty, you could need to flip off your Wyze cameras till it addresses the issues.

In March 2022, Wyze revealed that it had been conscious of a safety vulnerability for 3 years that would have let unhealthy actors entry WyzeCam v1 cameras, however quietly discontinued the digicam relatively than telling clients about it.