It’s highly unlikely that someone will hack into your Nest cameras, but it has happened. And if you don’t enable two-factor authentication on your Nest account, it could eventually happen to you.
One family’s Nest camera was recently hacked and used to belt out a fake emergency message about an impending missile strike from North Korea using the Nest Cam’s built-in speaker—a bizarre way of using the hacked camera for sure.
Google says this hack job was merely accomplished by using a compromised password that was also used on another website that was breached. Turning on two-factor authentication would have prevented the Nest camera from getting hacked.
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There was also another instance of a Nest Cam (being used as a baby monitor) becoming compromised where the perp started shouting expletives through the camera’s speaker. What’s wrong with these people? It’s just weird.
Long story short, Wi-Fi cams can get hacked into. With that said, if you don’t have two-factor authentication enabled for your Nest account, here’s how to do it.
Go to home.nest.com in a web browser (you can’t do it from the app, unfortunately) and log in to your account.
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via Tech Republiq
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