Stuffed cloudpets vulnerable to hacking, few retailers stop selling Who would have thought hacking is a constraint to only accounts, banks and emails. Today, stuffed pets are being hacked and used for criminal activity. According to reports, around 800,000 accounts relating to the soft toys were recently hacked with data leaked on the internet. Some of the nation’s largest retailers, including Amazon, Walmart and eBay, stopped selling a stuffed children’s toy this week because of concerns the devices could be easily hacked. A study conducted by researchers found that cloudpets are hackable with many having already been hacked. Some of these toys work on Bluetooth technology and others on WiFi technology, which renders them vulnerable to being used as a listening device if exploited. Security researchers demonstrated the Bluetooth-enabled devices could be hijacked and turned into a listening device. An audit was conducted by Mozilla Firefox that highlights that these vulnerabilities are
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