A terrifying encounter was captured on video as a woman listened to mysterious voice appear to taunt her through her own Ring doorbell camera.
The woman, who goes by Brendajas26 on TikTok and did not reveal her location, shared the spine-tingling 22-second clip on social media on August 7.
After taking the Ring doorbell camera inside her home to charge it, she was seen holding the device as a stranger’s voice begins to laugh and says ‘I see you!’
The stranger repeated their claims before turning off the camera and stopped speaking.
The alleged invasion of privacy has been viewed over 11 million times and has received thousands of comments from equally terrified doorbell camera users.
‘Thanks for convincing me to never get a ring camera,’ one person on TikTok said.
‘When your security camera starts doing horror movie auditions,’ another person added.
Daily Mail spoke to cybersecurity expert James Knight, who said this type of intrusion doesn’t even require a great amount of skill to pull off.
A woman recently recorded the moment her Ring doorbell camera was hacked and a stranger’s voice taunted her for several seconds (Stock Image)
‘There are two ways to get into them. One is to hack it directly. This is not easy and not likely. The second is to access the person’s account by guessing their password,’ Knight said.
The security expert for DigitalWarfare.com added that if a Ring camera user isn’t using multi-factor authentication on their digital devices and online accounts, then this type of attack is even easier for amateur hackers.
Multi-factor authentication adds another layer of security by sending a secret code to a person’s phone or email when they log into certain sites.
‘If using the second way by, getting into the person’s account by guessing their password, one would also need to know their email address,’ Knight explained.
‘It’s not hard to find out someone’s email address. One doesn’t need to be a pro hacker.’
Knight recommended that anyone with an electronic doorbell camera should set a strong and unique password and also active the device’s multi-factor authentication instead of just using the camera immediately after you take it out of the box.
The woman in the viral clip posted again two days later, noting that she had changed her Ring password after the hack and hadn’t had any other problems.
Some TikTok users commenting on the incident have claimed that it could have been a complete misunderstanding, with the woman’s doorbell camera accidentally crossing signals with a nearby baby monitor and an unassuming parent talking to their infant.
Ring doorbell users have been advised to set a strong password and use multi-factor authentication when setting up the electronic camera system (Stock Image)
However, the camera owner admitted that the thought of someone watching her without her knowledge had a traumatizing effect.
‘I still very creeped out wondering how long they were watching and what they saw’ the woman wrote in her follow-up post.
‘I would have put tape over that camera so quickly,’ a viewer replied.
‘You should keep on changing your password every like 2 months,’ another person recommended.
This isn’t the first privacy issue tied to the popular doorbell cameras. In 2023, Ring agreed to pay a $5.6 million settlement after the firm was charged with failing to protect private video footage.
A complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused the Amazon-owned company of allowing its employees and contractors to access customers’ private videos.
The doorbell camera and home security provider allegedly used footage from its cameras to train algorithms without the owners’ consent.
Ring was also charged with failing to implement key security protections, which allowed hackers to take control of customers’ accounts, cameras, and videos.
The FTC noted that this led to ‘egregious violations of users´ privacy.’
Roughly 117,044 Ring customers received a payment worth around $47 if they filed their claim by May 2025.
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