24-year-old Heather Hines's Wyze security cameras went offline, revealing footage from other users' homes to 1,500 users due to a 3rd-party caching issue.

24-year-old Heather Hines discovered that her 7 Wyze security cameras briefly went offline, followed by an email revealing thousands of users opened their apps and saw footage from inside other people's homes. The issue stemmed from a caching problem from a 3rd-party partner when the camera systems came back online. Heather was one of 13,000 compromised accounts, with 1,500 users viewing images and videos from other Wyze cameras.

March 09, 2024
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