Two stains on society soon to be paying a debt to society: hack Ring doorbell cam to record Swatting

[thewayne]

Remember that Violence As A Service article that I posted a while back? This is a direct offshoot of that. One of these stains is a "L337 hax0r" who stole over $300,000 in crypto currency via cell phone sim swapping. These twits would hack Yahoo Mail accounts, then see if that same password would unlock a Ring account. If it did, they were gold - goes to show that it's important to use different passwords for different accounts, especially important ones, and critical when privacy issues are at stake!

Then these stains would SWAT the victims, recording and live-streaming the victims. Fortunately no physical injuries were reported from the incidents, though emotional trauma I'm sure was received.

Have fun in prison, ass-wipes!

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/hacked-ring-cams-used-to-record-swatting-victims/

Comments

[disneydream06]

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Couldn't tell you the last time I used my yahoo account and I don't have a Ring.
I wonder if I could still get into my yahoo mail. :o
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

I won't own any surveillance-type equipment masterminded or bought out by Amazon.  I could rig a front porch video camera on my own if I wanted to.

[disneydream06]

Don't know if I could rig my own, but I couldn't agree more. :o

[silveradept]

And that's without the part where Ring cameras apparently can be accessed without warrants by the police for any old reason they like, so yet more reasons not to get Ring cameras.

That said, assholes who want to SWAT and think it's fun or funny should receive as many charges as can be stuck against them.