The Internet of Shit gets up close and personal.
If you’re using an internet-connected vibrator equipped with a camera that allows you to stream your “pleasure” right to the internet, your intended viewers might not be the only ones watching.
Hackers from the UK-based security firm Pen Test Partners have found that it’s trivially easy to hack into a Svakom Siime Eye, a $249 Internet of Things dildo that has a small camera on its tip, allowing users to stream a video to anyone of their choosing over the internet. However, if you’re in Wi-Fi range of the dildo and can guess the password, which by default is “88888888,” you can watch the video stream. With a bit more hacking, you can take control of the firmware and then connect to it remotely as well.
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“When somebody is using it, someone else could be seeing the video stream,” said Ken Munro, the founder of Pen Test Partners.
What’s worse, “you’d never know about it,” said the researcher who investigated the security of the device, who asked to be referred to only as Beau du Jour.
It’s the first dildo hack that could potentially expose live footage of someone’s most intimate parts (literally).
Of course, this is not the first dildo to get hacked. Security researchers have time and time again warned that some of the new internet-connected sex toys were awfully insecure, and a privacy nightmare. Earlier in March, the maker of a connected vibrator that collected sensitive personal information agreed to pay $3.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.
But it’s the first dildo hack that could potentially expose live footage of someone’s most intimate parts (literally).

Working as a cyber security solutions architect, Alisa focuses on application and network security. Before joining us she held a cyber security researcher positions within a variety of cyber security start-ups. She also experience in different industry domains like finance, healthcare and consumer products.