This is a true story about modern technology turning very scary..
A Cincinnati Ohio family is learning firsthand how easy it can be to be hacked in our modern age.. FOX 19 reports this:
Heather Schreck was asleep around midnight in her Hebron home when a voice startled her.
"All of a sudden, I heard what sounded like a man’s voice but I was asleep so I wasn’t sure," Heather said.
Disoriented and confused, Heather picked up her cell phone to check the camera in her 10-month-old daughter Emma’s room. The camera was moving, but she wasn’t moving it.
"About the time I saw it moving, I also heard a voice again start screaming at my daughter. He was screaming, ‘Wake up baby. Wake up baby.’ Then just screaming at her trying to wake her up."
That’s when Heather’s husband, Adam, ran into Emma’s room. Adam said the camera then turned from his petrified daughter to point directly at him.
"Then it screamed at me," Adam said. "Some bad things, some obscenities. So I unplugged the camera."
But the Schrecks were only beginning to plug into the truth of what had just happened.
"Someone had hacked in from outside," Heather said.
A baby is the most prized and valued possession of a family. It’s urgently important for parents to constantly keep their children safe, sound, and protected.. The fact that someone can easily hack into a baby monitor and do something of this nature is in itself a very scary thing for a parent.
In some weird way, when I read this, it reminded me of that old story ‘the babysitter.’ A man was harrassing a babysitter by calling over and over again—the punchline came when the operator said “the call is coming from a telephone upstairs!”.. but involved 20th century technology. This new modern ‘hacking’ and thwacking than can occur may be even more frightening. At least in old tales of horror, we knew where the culprit was. In this age, we don’t. He can watch your child, or you, from your computer camera. Or in this case, a baby monitor.
A sense of security is important. When something happens to ruin it—as it did to Heather and Adam Schreck—your life can turn upside down. And you’ll realize how scary this world can be..
Hacker hijacks baby monitor
