A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users
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#2I'm curious if Ring operates a different security engineering team than the rest of Amazon. Because Amazon.com or AWS would not get hacked; not like this.
Re: A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users
#3I'm curious if Ring operates a different security engineering team than the rest of Amazon. Because Amazon.com or AWS would not get hacked; not like this.
I wonder if there's something to do with Ring being attached to a consumer-consumed hardware device that drastically changes the game, also.
Re: A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users
#4I'm curious if Ring operates a different security engineering team than the rest of Amazon. Because Amazon.com or AWS would not get hacked; not like this.
Given what I’ve seen of acquisitions the teams remain distinct decades later.
Re: A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users
#5Even if it was the official article title, "Data Leak" is extremely misleading; the attack is called credential stuffing and is unrelated to any sort of breach on Ring's end.
Edit: finished reading the article, and the entire text is just as misleading as the title, credential stuffing happens all the time and really isn't newsworthy.
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#6Amazon's response seems quite defensive. They are typically a bit black box when it comes to security issues.
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#7So 3k people who installed neighborhood surveillance devices have suffered a loss of privacy? Can't seem to find much sympathy.
Re: A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users
#8So 3k people who installed neighborhood surveillance devices have suffered a loss of privacy? Can't seem to find much sympathy.
Almost everyone who gets a ring or other smart door bell is getting one to see who is knocking on their door, not to spy on their neighborhood
Re: A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users
#9Even if it was the official article title, "Data Leak" is extremely misleading; the attack is called credential stuffing and is unrelated to any sort of breach on Ring's end. Edit: finished reading the article, and the entire text is just as misleading as the title, credential stuffing happens all the time and really isn't newsworthy.
The rhetoric surrounding Ring has reached a fever pitch. Seems like we get a new article or two every day about Ring, and the quality varies wildly. Its hard to know what to take seriously and what is just media preying on people's fears.
Re: A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users
#10Amazon's response seems quite defensive. They are typically a bit black box when it comes to security issues.
Maybe it's because literally every password protected service is vulnerable to users reusing passwords on other insecure sites.
It would be like a website writing an expose on how ford trucks are killing hundreds of drivers and expecting a response from ford, but when you read the details it's because users are driving their trucks into brick walls, something that literally every car on the market is susceptible to.