Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'

The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.allegations made by the US watchdog that folks could have been, and were, spied upon by cybercriminals and rogue Ring workers via their Ring home security cameras.

Miscreants were able to, for instance, brute-force or credential-stuff their way into victims' Ring accounts, including those of 55,000 American customers, due to a lack of security defenses in place, it's said. These accounts held Ring camera footage to playback, and intruders could even talk through the cameras to freak out their victims.

Ring was forced to hand over $5.6 million to the FTC, which is now distributing it among affected Ring customers. These payments will be sent via PayPal to 117,044 accounts.

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