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Hackers remotely took control of Ecovacs Deebot X2 robot vacuums in multiple US cities, using their speakers to yell racial slurs at owners and their cameras to surveil homes.

No harmotherconsumerEcovacs
Date of incident
2024-05-24
Location
Multiple US cities (including Minnesota, Los Angeles CA, El Paso TX), USA
Model
Deebot X2
Sources
2
EscalationFollow-up
Timeline

How the event developed

  1. 2024-10-10Report

    Hackers remotely took control of Ecovacs Deebot X2 robot vacuums in multiple US cities, using their speakers to yell racial slurs at owners and their cameras to surveil homes.

    abc.net.au
  2. 2025-01-20Follow-up

    A man's Ecovacs robot vacuum was hacked and used to hurl racial slurs at him in his home in the United States.

    oecd.ai
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