Your Baby Monitor's Biggest Security Flaw Isn't Hackers. It's the Company That Built It.

In May 2026, a French ethical hacker named Sammy Azdoufal bought a baby monitor off Amazon and spent a few hours looking at its network traffic. What he found: 1.1 million cameras across 300+ brand names, all running on the same shared platform, accessible to anyone with a free account. No password cracking. No exploit chain. He clicked a URL and got the image. The vulnerability wasn't a clever attack. It was negligence — hardcoded credentials, an MQTT broker with no per-device access controls,