Enlarge / Wyze web-connected personal surveillance camera, August 2019. (credit: Smith Collection | Gado | Getty Images)
Loads of folks find brand new Wyze surveillance cameras under their trees or in their stockings this Christmas. And on Boxing Day, the company itself unwrapped a whole new world of trouble for everyone who uses its products, confirming a data leak that may have exposed personal data for millions of users over the course of a few weeks.
Wyze first found out about the problem in the morning on December 26, company cofounder Dongsheng Song said in a corporate blog post. The company's investigation confirmed that user data was "not properly secured" and was exposed from December 4 onward.
The database in question was basically a copy of the production database that Wyze created to work with, Song explained. Data points left exposed include user email addresses, camera nicknames, WiFi network information, Wyze device information, some tokens associated with Alexa integrations, and "body metrics for a small number of product beta testers."
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