Mom Hears a Stranger Talking to Child Through WiFi Baby Monitor

The monitor's camera was positioned directly above the crib. “Of course, he was crying a little bit, so I opened the app and turned on the audio just to keep an eye on him,” says the OP (original poster on reddit.com). “As soon as I turned on the audio, I hear a woman’s voice go, ‘Hello?’”

The OP asked their husband if there was anything in the room that talks or if the camera made noise when turning the audio on. The answers were no and no. “I go back upstairs, and as I’m opening the door to my son’s room I hear the same woman talking to my son through the camera,” the OP writes. “She said, ‘Hi baby! It’s OK!’ 

“Consumer Reports found that most of these models have pretty lax security and privacy and didn't earn a recommendation in our ratings,” explains Allen St. John, the content manager for baby monitors of Consumer Reports. more