Amazon and Ring Home Security Cameras Unit have been sued by John Baker Orange, an Alabama homeowner who said: The flawed design of the cameras makes buyers vulnerable to cyberattacks, and it includes flaws because it does not protect against cyberattacks.
John explained in the proposed class action lawsuit that he bought the camera in July 2019 and paid $ 250 for it, but the camera only works when connected to the Internet, which made him vulnerable in recent weeks to a violation of his cyber security related to his children between the ages of 7, 9 and 10 years.
The lawsuit said: The children of John Baker Orange were playing basketball recently when a sound appeared through the camera's two-way amplifier system, where an unknown intruder managed to access the Amazon camera and communicated with the children who were playing basketball and encouraged them to approach the camera .
The new lawsuit comes after several media reports that hackers have used two-way talking functions on Amazon devices to wake people up and watch children via internet-connected cameras, and the case identified seven such incidents, including the Texas incident in which a hacker threatened a couple and demanded a ransom of 350 A thousand dollars through Bitcoin coin.
The complaint filed in the Los Angeles Federal Court seeks unlimited compensation from Amazon and Ring, as well as improving the safety of new and existing Ring cameras, and John Baker's attorney said: The company that sells a device that is supposed to protect homeowners should not become a platform potentially These people are at risk.
This is the main product in the Ring is the doorbell that contains a security camera and allows home owners to monitor visitors and communicate with them through the phone application even if they are not at home, and Amazon announced in April 2018 that it had bought Ring for $ 839 million in cash.
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