Two people are charged with swatting several homes and live-streaming the police response on social media.
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two people with "swatting" of homes over the course of a week in November 2020.The pair allegedly gained access to home security cameras throughout the country from Nov. 7 - 13 in 2020. They obtained access to the Ring devices by hacking the Yahoo! email accounts belonging to victims, authorities said.
"Swatting is a serious crime, and those responsible for it should be brought to justice," A Ring statement to Fox News Digital said."In this case, we learned bad actors used stolen customer email credentials obtained from external services to access other accounts, and took immediate steps to help those customers secure their Ring accounts.
After aging access to the Ring cameras, Nelson and McCarty allegedly made false emergency reports to local law enforcement agencies where the victims live in an effort to elicit a police response to their homes. Using the security camera information, they then live-streamed the audio and video from the devices on social media during the police response, authorities said. On Nov.
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