Security News > 2024 > February > Wyze admits 13,000 users could have viewed strangers' camera feeds
Smart home security camera slinger Wyze is telling customers that a cybersecurity "Incident" allowed thousands of users to see other people's camera feeds.
Thanks to a helpful Reg reader who sent a customer email over to us, we know that around 13,000 Wyze users had the opportunity to view events captured by other users' cameras.
Wyze said of these 13,000, only 1,504 users actually looked at the feeds of others, willfully or not.
The company explained that a Friday outage, which it attributed to "Our partner AWS, took down Wyze devices for several hours early Friday morning." Wyze said it then experienced a "Security issue" when cameras came back online.
During the course of normal operation, Wyze cameras capture "Events" - clips of notable activity caught throughout the day which are stored in the Events section of the Wyze app for users to review at their leisure.
As cameras came back online, the circa 13,000 affected users were able to view Events from other users' cameras in their own app.