New York: In yet another bone-chilling incident, parents of an eight-year-old girl in the US were left stunned when a hacker accessed a camera installed in their daughter’s room and taunted her. To their greatest worry, the hacker was watching her all the time.
The incident happened with a Tennessee family who had installed Amazon-owned Ring video camera in the room of their three daughters to keep an eye on them and stay close as the mother worked night shifts as a nurse, reports FOX17.
In the video, the hacker can be heard taunting the eight-year-old several times as she is seen clueless as where the voice is coming from.
Advertisements
When the girl asked: “Who is that?” The hacker replied: “I’m your best friend, you can do whatever you want right now. You can mess up your room, you can break your TV, you can do whatever you want. C’mon, can you say the magic word?”
The girl, now terrified, asks again: “Who is that?”
The voice replies, “I’m your best friend, I’m Santa Claus. Don’t you want to be my best friend?”
Advertisements
The girl then is seen yelling, calling for her mother. The mysterious voice stopped when the child’s father entered the room.
“My daughter could’ve been changing in her room…It did not take them long at all to figure this out,” Ashley LeMay, the mother, was quoted as saying.
“Even the doorbell, they can hear what you’re saying. In our case, we were going out of the country and this happened the night before we were leaving and we’re left thinking, ‘what did he hear?’ He has access to all of our videos now,” she added.
Advertisements
The video camera has since been disconnected.