A South Carolina mother has claimed that her baby monitor was hacked so it could peer over her bed as she breastfed her three-month-old son.
Jamie Summitt, 24, said she discovered the glitch while her son Noah was sleeping at their Charleston home last week.
The first-time mother bought the Fredi monitor on Amazon because it could be used on WiFi and controlled via a phone app.
The app allows the user to control the movement of the camera remotely.
Jamie Summitt, 24, bought the Fredi baby monitor on Amazon because it could be used on WiFi and controlled via a phone app but claims someone hacked in so they could spy on her
Summitt said she was sitting in her living room keeping an eye on Noah via the baby cam last week when she spotted the camera moving.
‘All of a sudden I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the camera was moving… and it was panning over to our bed,’ Summit said in a lengthy Facebook post.
‘The exact spot that I breastfeed my son every day. Once the person watching realized I was not in bed, he panned back over to Noah asleep in his bassinet.’
‘My heart immediately sank into my stomach. I realized that this morning the camera was facing our bed when I had last left it facing away from our bed and over at Noah in his bassinet.’
Summit said she initially thought it might have been her husband logging onto the app from work. She said he often did so to check in, but he said he hadn’t accessed the camera that day.
Summit said she discovered the glitch while her three-month-old son Noah was sleeping at their Charleston home last week
The first-time mother claims that her baby monitor was hacked so it could peer over her bed as she breastfed her three-month-old son
‘I feel so violated. This person has watched me day in and day out in the most personal and intimate moments between my son and I. I am supposed to be my sons protector and have failed miserably,’ Summit said.
The couple tried calling and emailing the company behind the monitor but the number listed was out of service.
They also called police but were told there was nothing they could do.
‘Once we tried to open the app back up after the incident it gave us an error message ‘insufficient permissions’ and locked us out,’ Summit said.
‘This was also after we had an officer in our home looking at the monitor This leads me to believe that the app had been hacked and whoever was watching saw that we had figured out it was hacked.’
The incident prompted the couple to change all their passwords and increase with WiFi security.
Summit said after she called police to investigate she was locked out of the device and received an ‘insufficient permissions’ warning