A bug in the Ring Neighbors app exposed the precise location data and home addresses of users who posted on the neighborhood watch platform.
Credit: Ring
Public user posts on Neighbors are anonymized, but a security lapse in the app may have allowed attackers to retrieve sensitive user information that isn t normally accessible, a new report by
TechCrunch claims.
While posts on Neighbors incorporate video footage from Ring products, they don t include publicly viewable names or location data. However, the flaw caused certain data like a user s latitude, longitude, and home address to become extractable from Ring s servers including data from the posts of users who had reported crimes.
technology. if they try to unplug it. ed: ring gets a lot of attention how does that work. this is a billionaire genius out of california who came up with a ring video door doorbell. that s their second version there on the right. this now is their new system called ring alarm. what i love about, this again, right out of the box, you can install it yourself it is so simple, you can grow as if you have a large house, you want to add more motion sensors. pete: i m looking at my front door right now. right here on my phone on my ring. ed: here is the address. take that down. here is how this is so seen just. app. launched a portion of the app. ring neighbors. what it does is some sketchy person is in the neighborhood. a neighbor who might have caught them on the ring video doorbell says someone kind of stretchy was at our porch and fiddling with our package no one stole anything but keep your eye