An Amazon Echo recorded a family’s conversation, then sent it to a random person in their contacts, 报告说，

A family in Portland, 小时。, received a nightmarish phone call two weeks ago.

“Unplug your Alexa devices right now,” a voice on the other line said. “You’re being hacked.”

显然地, one of Amazon.com’s Alexa-powered Echo devices in their house had silently sent recordings to the caller without the family’s permission, 根据 KIRO 7, a news station covering Seattle and western Washington state that first reported the story. The person, an employee of the husband, was in the family’s contact list. 阅读更多…