--- title: Hacked Baby Monitor Foscam in Cincinnati description: Baby monitor hacked and creepy stranger's voice freaks out family in Cincinnati, Ohio. canonical: https://time.com/79170/stranger-hacks-into-baby-monitor-and-screams-at-child/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman Staff Writer Apr 28, 2014 3:16 PM UTC Parents in Cincinnati, Ohio, heard a male voice screaming at their baby through their baby monitor, which appears to have been hacked, [FOX19 reports](http://www.fox19.com/story/25310628/hacked-baby-monitor). According to Heather Schreck, the stranger was yelling at her 10-month-old daughter Emma, “‘Wake up baby. Wake up baby.’ Then just screaming at her trying to wake her up.” Then Adam Schreck, the baby’s father, [said](http://www.fox19.com/story/25310628/hacked-baby-monitor) when he ran into the room, the camera turned and started shouting at him. It is the latest IP camera manufactured by Foscam and used as a baby monitor that has gone viral because of a security breach. In August 2013, [NewsFeed](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/08/14/baby-monitor-hacker-calls-2-year-old-girl-a-little-slt/) reported via [ABC13](http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9201651) that in Houston, a stranger saw a two-year-old girl’s name written on her bedroom wall via the Internet-connected cam and started making abusive comments like “‘‘Wake up you little sl#t.’” [Forbes has reported](http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/13/how-a-creep-hacked-a-baby-monitor-to-say-lewd-things-to-a-2-year-old/) that the company had a “firmware vulnerability” caused by outdated software that could cause hackers to easily tap in, but software updates were supposed to make the network more secure. That said, earlier this year, [PCWorld](http://www.pcworld.com/article/2091180/authentication-bypass-bug-exposes-foscam-webcams-to-unauthorized-access.html) noticed that similar concerns about the security of the Foscam wireless IP cameras have been raised in company’s technical support forums. Solutions expert Dave Hatter [recommended to FOX19](http://www.fox19.com/story/25310628/hacked-baby-monitor) that passwords should be changed on the WiFi network and the camera software, but admitted, “Any kind of Internet-connected device essentially could be subjected to this.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/79170/stranger-hacks-into-baby-monitor-and-screams-at-child/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/79170/stranger-hacks-into-baby-monitor-and-screams-at-child/"},"headline":"Stranger Hacks Into Baby Monitor and Screams at Child","datePublished":"2014-04-28T15:16:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:10.468Z","description":"Baby monitor hacked and creepy stranger's voice freaks out family in Cincinnati, Ohio.","url":"https://time.com/79170/stranger-hacks-into-baby-monitor-and-screams-at-child/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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