Ring security cameras gave every employee 'full access' to all customer video for years: FTC

At least one employee viewed 'thousands' of video recordings 'belonging to at least 81 unique female users.'

Another incident allegedly occurred in 2018, when a male employee allegedly accessed a fellow female employee's camera "and watched her stored video recordings without her permission," per the filing.The company also "systematically failed" to control two types of cyber attacks and failed to patch system vulnerabilities" before January 2020, the FTC says.

In at least 20 instances, bad actors accessed the Ring accounts device for more than one month, per the complaint.

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