HOUSTON – A Houston couple on Tuesday revealed to ABC News that earlier this month, the baby monitor they use for their daughter was hacked and the hacker shouted obscenities at the sleeping 2-year-old girl as well as her parents who had not changed the default log in or password.
The baby monitor connected to the family’s Wi-Fi network. Although the story didn’t say which vendor made the hacked monitor, CNET sister site ZDNet says that the video on the story appears to include an image of the Foscam FI9821P. It’s not clear, however, if that was indeed the camera the family used.
According to ZDNet, if it was the Foscam monitor, that device comes with a default username and password that are both “admin.” If that’s not changed, hackers who know how to access a person’s network could possibly gain access to the monitor.
CNET has contacted Foscam to determine if its monitor was used in the hack and if it had any comment on the matter.
