Denmna’s 2-year-old daughter, view from security camera
On Wednesday evening, an Indianapolis mother was home alone
with her two-year-old daughter while her husband, the girl’s father, was
away. All was quiet in the house until, to the mother’s horror, she
heard sexual noises in her toddler’s room.
The mother had been playing with her little girl right
before bedtime, when perverse music and panting replaced the sweets
sounds of a mom and child’s laughter. Although The Police’s much-loved
80’s ballad Every Breath You Take is
a hit song, it wasn’t for this mom that evening. Instead, it left her
wanting to call the real police. Along with the stalker-sounding music
track was a man making sounds the mom described as “sexual.”
Initially, the mom thought this had to be a sick joke. Then
she realized that just as the song suggests, she and her toddler
daughter were being watched, much to the creeper’s disturbing pleasure.
Looking frantically around her little girl’s bedroom, she
realized the same device she and her husband Jared Denman use to monitor
their child while she slept had been hacked by a stranger watching more
than sleep patterns. To make matters worse, it wasn’t just one pervert
monitoring this family’s private time. An army of disgusting degenerates
online were enjoying watching them when they didn’t realize it, along
with the moment they squirmed at the unsettling sounds the ringleader
was taunting them with.
“Our privacy was just invaded,” Jared said in utter disgust
for what his family had endured while he was away from home. He took the
investigation into the situation on himself, searching the Internet to
see if this was an isolated incident or a common underground practice.
That’s when he found that his family wasn’t the only victims. Other
videos uploaded online showed similar hacks broadcasting the same hit
song. It’s believed that the unknown culprit has a Twitter account he
uses to brag about his seedy breaches, WTTV reported.
The Denman’s with their Daughter, her monitor that was hacked (right)
“It agitated me a lot because who is to know if those people
are even aware that the videos have been posted online,” the frustrated
father told the news station. “We kind of felt violated and we didn’t
feel secure in our own home.”
According to David Szpunar, the VP of technical services at
PC Help Services, breaches like this are uncomfortably common and
parents need to be diligent about securing their child’s monitoring
devices that are accessible through the Internet. “You can make sure you
have a strong wireless network password in case someone is nearby and
wants to bypass your firewall completely,” Szpunar advised, adding that
the best thing parents can do is regularly change the username and
password to something new and challenging.
This was the main vulnerability for the Denmans, who had forgotten to
change the generic username and password set by the factory.
Ensuring your children’s safety is of top importance to
parents, which in this day and age means more than what happens outside
the four walls of your home. Pedophiles could be in your home right now,
victimizing you and your children without you even knowing it, until
they become brazen enough to make their perverted presence audible.
h/t: [WesternJournalism]
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