“Unplug Your Alexa Devices Right Now… You’re Being Hacked”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Thu, 05/24/2018
“Unplug your Alexa devices right now…You’re being hacked.”
That was the disturbing message that a Portland family received just weeks after installing the Amazon listening devices throughout their home.
As KIRO7 reports, Danielle, who did not want us to use her last name, contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa, and that the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle</em>, who was in the family’s contact list.
“My husband and I would joke and say I’d bet these devices are listening to what we’re saying,” said Danielle.
After receiving the call above from one of her husband’s employees – who was in the family’s contact list – Danielle says she unplugged all the devices, and she repeatedly called Amazon. She says an Alexa engineer investigated.
“I felt invaded,” she said. “A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, ‘I’m never plugging that device in again, because I can’t trust it.'”
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