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Ring customers get $5.6 million in privacy breach settlement

The Federal Trade Commission is sending $5.6 million in refunds to Ring users whose private video feeds were accessed without consent by Amazon employees and contractors, or had their accounts and devices hacked because of insufficient security protections.
- Bill Toulas
- April 24, 2024
- 10:31 AM
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Amazon faces $30 million fine over Ring, Alexa privacy violations

Amazon will pay $30 million in fines to settle allegations of privacy violations related to the operation of its Ring video doorbell and Alexa virtual assistant services.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 31, 2023
- 04:44 PM
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Amazon fixes Ring Android app flaw exposing camera recordings

Amazon has fixed a high-severity vulnerability in the Amazon Ring app for Android that could have allowed hackers to download customers' saved camera recordings.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 18, 2022
- 06:00 AM
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AWS outage impacts Ring, Netflix, and Amazon deliveries

Amazon AWS in the US-EAST-1 Region is suffering an outage that affected numerous online services, including Ring, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video, and Roku.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 07, 2021
- 04:28 PM
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Amazon starts rolling out Ring end-to-end encryption globally

Amazon-owned Ring has announced starting the worldwide roll out of video End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) to customers with compatible devices.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 13, 2021
- 05:47 PM
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Amazon to share your Internet with neighbors on Tuesday - How to opt out

Amazon will be launching the Amazon Sidewalk service on Tuesday that automatically opts-in your Echo and Ring devices into a new feature that shares your Internet with your neighbors. Here's more about this new feature and how to opt-out of sharing your bandwidth with other Amazon devices.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 06, 2021
- 09:16 AM
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Amazon Prime 2020: Early deals on Amazon devices and electronics

Amazon Prime Day kicks off tomorrow, October 13th, at midnight PST, but it's possible to grab some early deals on Alexa and Ring devices, as well as other electronics.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 12, 2020
- 11:21 PM
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Ring Forces 2FA On All Users to Secure Cameras from Hackers

Ring announced today the roll-out of mandatory two-factor authentication to all user accounts, as well as the inclusion of additional security and privacy controls over third-party service providers, and the choice to opt-out of personalized advertising.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 18, 2020
- 01:51 PM
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Ring Android App Sent Sensitive User Data to 3rd Party Trackers

Amazon's Ring doorbell app for Android is sending to third-party trackers information that can be used to identify customers, research from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found.
- Ionut Ilascu
- January 28, 2020
- 11:48 AM
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Attackers Terrify Homeowners After Hacking Ring Devices

In a series of hacks targeting Ring camera devices, attackers are terrifying homeowners and making them feel violated in their own homes after taunting them or speaking to their children over the device's speakers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 13, 2019
- 04:42 PM
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