Security News > 2021 > February > NurseryCam hacked, company shuts down IoT camera service

Daycare camera product NurseryCam was hacked late last week with the person behind the digital break-in coming forward to tip us off.

News of NurseryCam's compromise was conveyed to the company by The Register just after 5pm on Friday, leading the firm to tell parents: "On 17:18 Friday 19th February 2021, it has come to our attention of a cyber incident detected in our NurseryCam system."

A hacker contacted El Reg on Friday to say they had obtained real names, usernames, passwords and email addresses for 12,000 NurseryCam users' accounts - and had then dumped them online.

El Reg, together with IoT security expert Andrew Tierney, verified that the credentials were genuine before notifying NurseryCam of the breach.

NurseryCam is produced and maintained by two companies: FootfallCam Ltd and Meta Technologies Ltd, both UK-registered businesses.

A NurseryCam user told us he had reported vulns in that product to the company in 2020 and had received an unsatisfactory response.

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/02/22/nurserycam_breach/