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If you're a parent, you'll probably sympathize with -- and cringe for -- this mother from Mississippi, United States. You won't believe what happened to her daughter in her own room.
The mother had a camera installed in her daughter's room and got really worried when she saw what was happening. Literal chills ran down her spine!
Apparently, her daughter Alyssa LeMay heard strange music coming from her room and ran upstairs to see what was going on. When she got there, she figured it was just one of her sisters making noise, but it was not.
What's most disturbing about this is that when the little girl got to her room, the music stopped and was replaced by the voice of a stranger. It wasn't her father or any other member of the family's voice, but that of a total stranger!
You first see the poor girl flinch as the man says "Hello there!" According to The Washington Post, what actually happened was that a hacker managed to hack into the camera system that the family had set up in the girl's room.
And what the voice told the little girl is quite disturbing. The hacker incited her to misbehave, ordering her to break the TV. Confused, the girl asks who is speaking and the voice responds:
I'm your best friend. You can do whatever you want right now. You can mess your room up. You can break your TV.
The man also told her that he was Santa Claus and that she should listen to him. The girl's mother, Ashley LeMay, was shaken and couldn't stop thinking about it.
In fact, the woman filed a complaint with Ring, the company that manufactures the cameras, but didn't get the response she was hoping for:
The fact that they’re just continuing to give customers the same blanket statement, it’s like they don’t seem concerned at all.
Also, according to Cadena SER, the Lemays weren't the only family targeted. In fact, several families have since also been hacked by hackers through the Ring camera's two-way conversation function.
What's worse is this Ring product hasn't been recalled, even though several families have reported similar instances of foreign -- and offensive -- voices and sounds coming from their devices to the company. Not a good look, Ring!
