Crisis Report - Wyze Customer Data Breach

Wyze Labs, which makes smart cameras and connected home gadgets, has confirmed databases holding many customers' information were exposed to the general public.

The first data leak exposed customer email addresses, also because the email addresses of these people that got permission to look at the camera feeds. an inventory of cameras in customers' home and tokens wont to hook up with smartphones and private assistants like Alexa were also left open for public view. That database was left exposed from December 4 until December 26.

The breach was disclosed on December 26 by Twelve Security and quickly confirmed by Wyze. Twelve Security said the info breach involved 2.4 million customers worldwide. Wyze said no customer passwords or financial information was contained within the database that was left unprotected.

Wyze on Monday said a second database had also been exposed. It didn't explain of what information is thereon database, although it said it also didn't include passwords or financial information.

As a part of the response to the first data leak, Wyze logged out their customers and required them to log in again to make new tokens.

Read more at:

• Smart camera maker Wyze hit with customer data breach - cnn.com
• Data Breach at Wyze Labs Exposes Information of 2.4 Million Customers - nytimes.com