Wyze Camera Flaw: 13,000 Strangers Through One Caching Hole
Two February 2024 vulnerabilities let Wyze app users briefly see thumbnails and live feeds of strangers' cameras — a cache-key failure amplified by a three-year-old flaw resurfacing in redesigned hardware. This account covers the date-based cache-key bug, the 13,000 affected users, the nine-hour fleet update, and the uncomfortable questions about budget-camera security engineering when the same vendor has now repeated the vulnerability class.