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Ubiquiti fixes glitch that uncovered non-public video streams to different clients

Ubiquity, the networking and video surveillance digital camera maker, has mounted a bug that customers say mistakenly allowed them entry to the accounts and personal dwell video streams of different clients.

Stories first emerged on Reddit that some customers received push notifications on their telephones that includes Ubiquiti account-related data and personal video streams belonging to different clients. One other particular person stated they logged into their Ubiquiti account however were presented with the account data of another customer.

“I logged in and I seem to be someone else,” stated one particular person on the Ubiquiti subreddit. One other stated they’d “full access” to dozens of consoles that weren’t their very own.

Ubiquiti is a cloud and expertise firm that makes routers, community switches, safety and video surveillance gear, which could be remotely managed and operated by way of its centralized cloud providing.

In a subsequent post on its community forum, Ubiquiti stated it has “identified — and addressed — the cause of this problem,” which the corporate stated was brought on by an improve to its cloud infrastructure.

“We were made aware of a small number of instances where users received push notifications on their mobile devices that appeared to come from unknown consoles, or where such users were able to access consoles that didn’t appear to be their own,” wrote an unnamed Ubiquiti worker.

The corporate stated 1,216 accounts from one group have been improperly related to one other group of 1,177 accounts, and that the combined entry lasted for about 9 hours on December 13.

Whereas this seems as a misconfiguration slightly than a prison incident — and errors occur — it’s a reminder that Ubiquiti nonetheless retains huge entry and management over its clients’ gadgets and information.

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