For $28, you can hack into a stranger's internet-enabled webcam
 

For $28, you can hack into a stranger's internet-enabled webcam
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If you have an web-connected camera, you should change your password ASAP.

For just 188 yuan ($28), you can buy software that would allow you to hack into connected cameras, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV warns.*

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Such software can easily scan for and access vulnerable devices, which are commonly used as baby monitors and surveillance cameras in the home.

******s in China have also set up large groups on social networks such as QQ, to offer usernames and passwords to compromised devices.

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(Left) A list of users offering a means to hack into webcams; (Middle) A user proffering means to hack into a webcam; (Right) Lewd pictures taken off webcams that are being used to advertise compromised webcams

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