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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 shared more details on a security incident that impacted thousands of users on Friday and said that at least 13,000 customers could get a peek into other users' homes."The outage originated from our partner AWS and took down Wyze devices for several hours early Friday morning. If you tried to view live cameras or events during that time you likely weren't able to. We're very sorry for the frustration and confusion this caused," the company says in emails sent to affected users.

Wyze Labs is investigating a security issue while experiencing a service outage that has been causing connectivity issues since this morning. "We are aware of an issue with our AWS partner which has impacted device connection and caused login difficulties. We are taking steps to mitigate the problem on our end as we work with AWS to resolve the issue," the company said.